Sound power levels of typical medical equipment in Intensive Care Units

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 651-658

  Xie, Hui ^a,b   Kang, Jian ^a,c   Mills, Gary H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DATABASE; ALARM SIGNALS; GUIDELINE VALUES; HIGH-FREQUENCY SOUNDS; NOISY EQUIPMENT; SOUND ENVIRONMENT; SOUND LEVEL; SOUND POWER LEVELS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; TIME INTERVAL;

ACOUSTIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS; ALARM SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS;

EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84864414597     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918545     Document Type: Article

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