Assessment of environmental noise and its effect on neonates in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

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• 作者：Jordi Romeu^a ; ^{jordi.romeu@upc.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Laura Cotrina^a ; ^{lauracotri90@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Josep Perapoch^b ; ^{perapoch@yahoo.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Marcos Liné ; s^b ; ^{marcoslines@hotmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Noise ; Newborn ; Health ; Assessment
• 刊名：Applied Acoustics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：111
• 期：Complete
• 页码：161-169
• 全文大小：769 K

文摘

A method for analyzing the influence of noise on newborns is proposed. The method consists of defining three different types of time interval (quiet, noisy and nursing) and, for each period, environmental noise levels, heart rate, mean arterial pressure and oxygen saturation is continuously measured. The statistical analysis of the influence of the equivalent noise level, rather than instantaneous noise level, on the behavior of the physiological variables is carried out. Great influence of noise is found by using this method, which is also easily translatable to other intensive care units as actual noise conditions are used in the investigation. Moreover, episodes of Bradycardia, Hypoxia and Hypertension are easily related to simultaneous direct nursing activity or a short but high enough noise event, suggesting that both sustained noisy environment and isolated peak noises lead to the alteration of the physiological variables.