Neonatal nursery noise: Practice-based learning and improvement

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 392-395

  Hassanein, Sahar M A ^a   El Raggal, Nehal M ^a   Shalaby, Amani A ^a  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Ambient noise level; Full term infants; Incidental noisy events; Incubators; Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Oxygen saturation; Preterm; Respiratory rate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BREATHING RATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INCUBATOR; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; OXYGEN SATURATION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; SOUND LEVEL METER;

CLINICAL ALARMS; CRYING; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; NOISE; OXYGEN; RESPIRATORY RATE; SPEECH; TELEPHONE;

EID: 84873458187     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2012.733759     Document Type: Article

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