[Noise generated during incubator manipulation: implications for nursing care].
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.
Rodarte
Milena D Oliveira
MD
Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo.
Scochi
Carmen Gracinda Silvan
CG
Leite
Adriana Moraes
AM
Fujinaga
Cristina Ide
CI
Zamberlan
Nelma Ellen
NE
Castral
Thaila Correa
TC
D006801:Humans; D007186:Incubators, Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D017283:Neonatal Nursing; D009622:Noise