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T1 Environmental sound spectral analysis suffered by neonatal patients. Case study: Nicu of Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar (Cádiz).
A1 Rodríguez Montaño, Víctor Manuel
A1 Beira Jiménez, Juan Luis
A1 Hernández Molina, Ricardo
A1 Fernández Zacarías, Francisco
A1 Cueto Ancela, José Luis
A1 Bustillo Velázquez-Gaztelu, Pedro Jesus
A1 Lubián López, Simón
A2 Ingeniería Eléctrica
A2 Máquinas y Motores Térmicos
A2 Ingeniería Mecánica y Diseño Industrial
A2 Ciencias y Técnicas de la Navegación y Construcciones Navales
A2 Materno-Infantil y Radiología
K1 Frequencies, Noise, Incubator
AB The objective of this work focuses on the frequency analysis of the noise suffered by neonatal patients inside the incubators located in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU). As a rule, noise has been evaluated in relation to the equivalent continuous level per hour (LAeq,1h). Different international organizations, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, establish a recommended limit for this index of 45 dBA. However, according to the existing literature, the audible range of the neonate is between 400 Hz and 4 kHz, coinciding with the range of human speech intelligibility frequencies. For this, we have carried out a series of acoustic measurements that allow us to evaluate the noise in the NICU of the Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar in Cádiz, which allows us to show that the indicator used LAeq,1h must be complemented with a study and frequency analysis to determine acoustic quality and protect to neonates.
PB International Institute of Noise Control Engineering (I-INCE)
SN 978-090988203-7
SN 0736-2935
YR 2019
FD 2019-06-16
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/31076
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/31076
LA eng
NO Esta aportación esta indexada en Scopus, Researchgate, Scimago, y Google Scholar.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 10-nov-2026