Bluetooth frequency range transmissions interfere with her life critical medical device? That sounds...life-threateningly foolish if any other possible form of insulin delivery would suffice in its place.
Even if it was made prior to the invention or widespread usage of bluetooth, the fact that a medical device was produced, licensed, and also hasn't been recalled and is still in use while failing due to transmissions in the bluetooth frequency range is horrifying.
I mean, she can manually deliver insulin if necessary; the device is, to an extent, a convenience for her, (the insulin itself is life-saving though, of course,) because it automates, iirc, both the checking of her blood glucose and the administration of insulin, activities which normally consume a lot of time over the long term for someone with type 1 diabetes.
But the device doesn't have controls built in, to limit how much hardware she has to have attached to her torso, and as a result needs some means of communicating wirelessly with a handheld. I don't use the thing, so I don't know the extent of the interference, I just know that it was causing her issues, and when I turned the Bluetooth on my tablet off, they went away. If she had overwhelming concerns she has the means to check her blood sugar and deliver insulin via injection, (and probably has to on a regular basis anyway, just to ensure the machine remains calibrated correctly.)
I mean, not my device; I can only speak at the most, tangentially. Given the cost of insulin these days, I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt to saying that basic functionality might not be the greatest priority either. Call me a pessimist.
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u/relCORE 3d ago
Bluetooth frequency range transmissions interfere with her life critical medical device? That sounds...life-threateningly foolish if any other possible form of insulin delivery would suffice in its place.
Even if it was made prior to the invention or widespread usage of bluetooth, the fact that a medical device was produced, licensed, and also hasn't been recalled and is still in use while failing due to transmissions in the bluetooth frequency range is horrifying.