User guide

Chapter 1 – Product Description and Specifications
8 MultiConnect AW User Guide
● Éteignez votre appareil sans fil dans un avion. Utilisant des dispositifs électroniques portables dans un avion
peut mettre en danger le fonctionnement de l'avion, peut perturber le réseau cellulaire, et est illégal. Le non-
respect de cette restriction peut entraîner la suspension ou le refus des services cellulaires au contrevenant,
une action en justice, ou les deux.
● Éteignez votre appareil sans fil lorsque autour de l'essence ou pompes diesel-carburant et avant de remplir
votre véhicule avec du carburant.
● Éteignez votre appareil sans fil dans les hôpitaux et tout autre endroit où l'équipement médical peut être
utilisé.
Interference with Pacemakers and Other Medical Devices
Potential interference
Radio frequency energy (RF) from cellular devices can interact with some electronic devices. This is
electromagnetic interference (EMI). The FDA helped develop a detailed test method to measure EMI of implanted
cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators from cellular devices. This test method is part of the Association for the
Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) standard. This standard allows manufacturers to ensure that
cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators are safe from cellular device EMI.
The FDA continues to monitor cellular devices for interactions with other medical devices. If harmful interference
occurs, the FDA will assess the interference and work to resolve the problem.
Precautions for pacemaker wearers
If EMI occurs, it could affect a pacemaker in one of three ways:
● Stop the pacemaker from delivering the stimulating pulses that regulate the heart's rhythm.
● Cause the pacemaker to deliver the pulses irregularly.
● Cause the pacemaker to ignore the heart's own rhythm and deliver pulses at a fixed rate.
Based on current research, cellular devices do not pose a significant health problem for most pacemaker wearers.
However, people with pacemakers may want to take simple precautions to be sure that their device doesn't cause
a problem.
● Keep the device on the opposite the side of the body from the pacemaker to add extra distance between the
pacemaker and the device.
● Avoid placing a turned-on device next to the pacemaker (for example, don’t carry the device in a shirt or
jacket pocket directly over the pacemaker).
Handling Precautions
All devices must be handled with certain precautions to avoid damage due to the accumulation of static charge.
Although input protection circuitry has been incorporated into the devices to minimize the effect of this static
build up, proper precautions should be taken to avoid exposure to electrostatic discharge during handling and
mounting.