cell phones/pagers?

[April Dunbar]

Hello,

I am interested in getting rid of our pagers and having cell phones to replace them for support during on/off shift hours.  I am tired of carrying around a pager and a cell phone, so in case the hospital pages me, I can call back on my cell phone.  The only concern that we have is the use of cell phones throughout the entire hospital and the effects they will have on some of our patient care devices.  

What are other hospitals doing?  Do you have a better solution?

Thanks,

April Dunbar

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[Dave Zibble]

Our 80+ person TIS group is rapidly tansitioning frompagers to cell phones as a primary device on ths hip.  See link below for info on how we “wired” up the hospital for cell phone and PDA use.  The myth of cell phones messing up life support haas been mostly disspelled.

http://www.cdh.org/News.aspx?id=9431  

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[Jodi Agosta2]

We are also using cell phones for most of our departments. While it is not my area I do know that extensive testing was done around the other devices and we did not find any interference. Our policy does say to not use the phone within 3 feet of a life support device but this is more of a precaution verus us seeing actual interference.

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