抄録
Each hospital has created the rule about use of a mobile phone with referring to the guideline which Electromagnetic Compatibility Conference Japan (EMCC) released in 1997, and taking the problem of manners into consideration comprehensively.Today, patient environment have drastically changed, such as the penetration of mobile phones into daily life, the termination of second-generation mobile phone services, and the improvement of medical electrical equipment for electromagnetic immunity. Therefore, EMCC published the new version of “Guidelines for use of mobile phones and other devices in hospitals” in August, 2014.New guidelines were created based on the survey results of current status of the mobile phones use in hospitals and the impact assessment results of the mobile phones to medical electrical equipment. The new guidelines enabled to expand the area in which mobile phone can be used, while requiring to keep “a separation distance” between medical electrical equipment and the mobile phones. New guidelines are also asking for hospitals to deploy “EMC managers” to manage electromagnetic environment properly. We describe the background and outline of the new guidelines.
