Design Guidelines for Light and Noise Management in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Design Guidelines for Light and Noise Management in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Sanz Segura, R. (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Manchado-Perez, Eduardo (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Ferrer-Duce, Maria Pilar (Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza)
Gonzalez de la Cuesta, Delia (Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza)
Ozcan Vieira, E. (TU Delft Design Aesthetics)

Cavas-Martínez, Francisco (editor)
Morer Camo, Paz (editor)
Sanz-Adan, Félix (editor)
Lostado Lorza, Ruben (editor)
Santamaría Peña, Jacinto (editor)

2020

Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) are environments with a high level of sensory stress. Medical advances and technology have contributed to increase the ratio of survival of premature infants but some devices and practices expose these babies to excessive noise and toxic sensory stimuli for which they are not prepared. This is related to an increase of neonatal morbidities, that are considered as minor sequelae, but that can greatly alter the life of the child and the family. Those responsible for hospital management and caregivers who want to take a step forward, need standards to guarantee the benefit of neonatal health and a proper physical and cognitive development of these babies. Design activity, from a Human-Centered Design approach (HCD), together with Developmental Centered Care (DC) contribute to identify and reduce adverse environmental conditions for newborns and premature infants. The purpose of this paper is to establish a method to provide design recommendations and good practice guidelines from evidence and especially from in-situ observations carried out in neonatal units by a multidisciplinary team (i.e., nurses, NICU supervisors and designers). Thus, we identify proposals to reduce stress situations and obtain potential benefits in the development of the hospitalized infant through adaptation of the NICU macroenvironment (i.e. the reduction of light and noise).

Alarm fatigue
Design guidelines
Human-Centered Design
NICU

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:caaa4385-f96b-4751-8117-9c6d2bcd79f2

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41200-5_31

SpringerOpen

2020-11-01

9783030411992

Advances in Design Engineering - Proceedings of the 29th International Congress, INGEGRAF 2019

29th International conference on the Digital Transformation in the Graphic Engineering, INGEGRAF 2019, 2019-06-20 → 2019-06-21, Logroño, Spain

Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, 2195-4356

Institutional Repository

conference paper

© 2020 R. Sanz Segura, Eduardo Manchado-Perez, Maria Pilar Ferrer-Duce, Delia Gonzalez de la Cuesta, E. Ozcan Vieira