Patent ID: 8489057

Claim:
A method of mitigating RF interference with one or more critical care medical devices, wherein a predetermined threshold energy acceleration value is associated with the one or more critical care medical devices that, if exceeded, will cause RF interference with the one or more critical care medical devices, the method comprising: generating and transmitting RF energy, wherein at least a portion of said RF energy follows an RF power profile of power versus time, the RF power profile having an upward ramping portion wherein power of the RF energy monotonically increases, a stay portion immediately following the upward ramping portion wherein power of the RF energy is at a maximum, and a downward ramping portion immediately following the stay portion wherein power of the RF energy monotonically decreases, wherein at no point in the upward ramping portion does a slope thereof exceed the predetermined threshold energy acceleration value and wherein at no point in the downward ramping portion does an absolute value of a slope thereof exceed the predetermined threshold energy acceleration value.