Noise and light exposures for extremely low birth weight newborns during their stay in the neonatal intensive care unit

Pediatrics

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 540-546

  Lasky, Robert E ^a   Williams, Amber L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Extremely low birth weight; Light; Neonatal intensive care unit; Newborns; Noise

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCUBATOR; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LIGHT; NOISE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LIGHT; MALE; NOISE;

EID: 61549089104     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2007-3418     Document Type: Article

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