title: [Noise generated during incubator manipulation: implications for nursing care].
abstract: Uncontrolled experimental study.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Quantify the impact noise of the 23 incubators functioning in the intensive and intermediate care units of a public university hospital in Ribeirão Preto-SP.
  
  
  METHODS
  Measuring occurred during incubator manipulation in a careful and in a rough way, considering the impact noise generated by the various situations in which the incubator was manipulated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In practically all manipulation situations in both the careful and the rough way, group B presented higher NPS, followed by group A and D. Group C demonstrated the lowest NPS during the different manipulation situations. Even careful manipulation generated a strong noise level, and NPS almost always doubled or tripled when the same situation was realized roughly. Careful manipulation, together with lower incubator use time, revealed to be effective in reducing the noise produced during equipment manipulation.
authors.affiliation: Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo.
authors.forename: Milena D Oliveira
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Rodarte
authors.forename: Carmen Gracinda Silvan
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Scochi
authors.forename: Adriana Moraes
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Leite
authors.forename: Cristina Ide
authors.initials: CI
authors.lastname: Fujinaga
authors.forename: Nelma Ellen
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Zamberlan
authors.forename: Thaila Correa
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Castral
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007186:Incubators, Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D017283:Neonatal Nursing; D009622:Noise