Data Show How Electronics Mix With Medical Devices Article

This article was about how certain electronic devices can interfere with medical equipment. There were two cases given where people with implanted medical devices experienced malfunctions with their equipment because of electronic article surveillance systems. In one case, a man's implanted defibrilator was set off because of the EAS. The other case involved a woman with a pacemaker that went haywire while she was standing next to the machine.
Another thing this article talks about is how cell phones may not be as big of an interference with hospital devices as once was thought. An experiment was performed, and the cellphones they used did not mess up the medical equipment being tested. They say even though the medical devices weren't messed up, it is still a good idea to keep phones off when around them, because there may be other devices that may pick up interference.
All electronic devices give off some sort of magnetic field. This is caused by the electricity flowing through the conductors, which makes a slight electromagnet. If another strong magnetic field is brought in, it could disrupt the flow of electrons in the device, causing it to fail. This is because magnetic fields can cause electrons to change path by turning. Although the conductors in electronics give a specific path for the electrons to follow, I think they could still be messed up by a magnet, causing an undesired effect, like what was stated in the article. The things in the article mostly talked about radiowaves, but I think magnets, if strong enough, could produce similar results.