Thanks to some students at the University of South Alabama, we have an answer: You die!
And the results were as one would expect.
The simulator had a pacemaker so we could speed the heart rate up, we could slow it down.
If it had a defibrillator, which most do, we could have shocked it repeatedly.
If it was the intent, we could definitely cause harm to the patient, Jacobs said.
Its definitely concerningif theres a high profile individual with a medical issue, it certainly makes them vulnerable.
The universitys hospital is looking into ways to wirelessly encode transmitted data sent between medical devices, added Jacobs.
work has not been peer reviewed yet.
Future practitioners will be trained to deal with medical rig failures, byzantine or otherwise, they wrote.
[Medical schools] will reinforce the use of alternate or traditional techniques that do not rely on technology.
source: www.techworm.net
