INSIBIO   05451
INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLOGICAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Acoustic pollution in hospital environments
Autor/es:
OLIVERA, JUAN MANUEL; ROCHA LUIS ALFREDO; ROTGER, VIVIANA INÉS; HERRERA, MYRIAM CRISTINA
Revista:
Journal ofPhysics:ConferenceSeries
Editorial:
IOP Publishing
Referencias:
Año: 2011 vol. 332 p. 1 - 10
ISSN:
1742-6596
Resumen:
There are many different services within a hospital. This means different types of noise which can be considered as acoustic pollution. Knowing that preterm infants exposed to high amounts of noise in the NICU are at a much higher risk because of their neurologic immaturity and physiologic instability, that excessive levels of noise also affect the persons and it can also impede some studies on patients, it was proposed to evaluate the Sound Pressure Level in some services of the Instituto de Maternidad, Tucumán, Argentina. There were evaluated the Level III NICU, the laundry service, a physical space destined for a service of evoked potential and a neonatal incubator under working conditions. The measurements were performed with a type II sonometer (CENTER 322) and it was also used an incubator analyzer (FLUKE INCU) for the incubator. The average values obtained were of 63.6 dBA for the NICU, 82.5dBA for the laundry room, 52.7 dBA for the evoked potential room and 62.8 dBA in the inside of the incubator under 64 dBA in the outside. The reports were documented in compliance with the appropriate standards.