Signal for help from little patients-3

Nursing of premature babies is carried out in the special incubator, in which it is warm, dark and quiet, like in the mother's womb. These necessary conditions for the baby are provided in different ways. The warmth is provided by the incubator modes. The darkness is created by different cushions put upon the incubator. The quietness is provided by the personnel's keeping as quiet as possible and and preventing the noise. However, the nursing of the premature bon baby requires much more than just an incubator.

At least three more apparatus are needed for one baby in this process. And, accordingly, they should be secured in one place at the level of height of an adult doctor to watch the performance and should not be spread over the entire ward, where there is a place. For this there are special Electrified stands (tripods instrumental).

Electrified stands (tripods) for the equipment are the stands for the special medical equipment that are equipped with sockets. Portable equipment can be put on a shelf or attached to a tripod at the same time to plug all the equipment in the sockets located on the racks. For what they are used in intensive care in neonatal wards?

Each unit has a battery that provides operating certain sounds creates background noise. According to the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the permissible noise level in intensive care units should not exceed 55 dB. For example, the old brand incubator working noise gives 45-55 dB, talk of the nurse at the incubator - 65 dB, putting any object near the incubator - to 50 dB.

Now imagine putting three working apparatus near one incubator. No battery works noiseless. To avoid the noise special electrified stands exist. If the noise level exceeds the allowable 55dB, the child develops acoustic trauma, ie, varying degrees of deafness. This is especially dangerous for children, who are born before 32 weeks gestation. Another harsh sounds can cause spontaneous bleeding into the brain of immature children, which is unacceptable. Now without the electrified stands, doctors and nurses of Rivne Regional Children Hospital are doing everything possible to resolve it on their own and to avoid adverse situations while nursing premature born children.

Due to your help children of Rivne RCH have recently received two Pulse Oximeters. Now the preservation of the workability and longevity depends of the sooner acquisition of the electrified stands for the Department.