TY - GEN
T1 - Design Guidelines for Light and Noise Management in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
AU - Sanz-Segura, Rosana
AU - Manchado-Perez, Eduardo
AU - Ferrer-Duce, Maria Pilar
AU - Gonzalez de la Cuesta, Delia
AU - Özcan, Elif
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - 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).
AB - 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).
KW - Alarm fatigue
KW - Design guidelines
KW - Human-Centered Design
KW - NICU
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85083658409&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-41200-5_31
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-41200-5_31
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85083658409
SN - 9783030411992
T3 - Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
SP - 284
EP - 293
BT - Advances in Design Engineering - Proceedings of the 29th International Congress, INGEGRAF 2019
A2 - Cavas-Martínez, Francisco
A2 - Morer Camo, Paz
A2 - Sanz-Adan, Félix
A2 - Lostado Lorza, Ruben
A2 - Santamaría Peña, Jacinto
PB - SpringerOpen
T2 - 29th International conference on the Digital Transformation in the Graphic Engineering, INGEGRAF 2019
Y2 - 20 June 2019 through 21 June 2019
ER -
