To add to this profane, yet important point: When you talk with NICU docs, their biggest complaint is the wires and tubes. Often in a NICU there are wires and

To add to this profane, yet important point: When you talk with NICU docs, their biggest complaint is the wires and tubes. Often in a NICU there are wires and tubes everywhere. Operating or trying to help a babe invariably ends up with some person standing on some line and pinching it or ripping it out of the many many machines. I'm super not kidding here. There are a TON of machines trying to keep the kiddo alive. Imagine a 5m sized cube filled with machines all trying to keep a kid the size of a breadbox breathing and the heart beating (or not, sometimes). It's a lot of carts, wires, amps, and waste heat in these rooms. Wireless is not possible as a lot of the machines aren't sheilded properly or are activley trying to jam some frequency band for a medical purpose (MRIs). Wires are the only solution. Tubes filled with some form of fluid are also, obviously, not able to be wireless. Especailly when things get desperate, there are liquids, fluids, blood, tissues, urine, and saline everywhere as frantic nurses and docs trip over the tubes and pull them out of their machines. You want to help the victims? Get rid of the wires. Stop dicking about with matrices.