The effect of live infant directed singing on the heart rate, oxygen saturation level and respiration rate of premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit

Preterm infants are babies who are delivered before the completion of 37 weeks gestation period. They are born with immature functioning of the brain. In Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), these infants receives many environmental stimuli, and their comfort will be disturbed. These various sensory stimulus received in NICU influence the functional and neurodevelopmental outcome of these infants and also their quality of life. So this study was intended to evaluate the axillary temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation level of these infants prior to nesting and after nesting at the 60th minute. Forty preterm infants who fulfilled the criteria of selection were included in the study by simple random sampling and segregated into case and control groups by blocked randomization. Data was collected and recorded. The temperature was recorded by a digital thermometer, respiratory rate was counted by the number of times the infants' chest rises, heart rate and oxygen saturation readings from the pulse oximeter. The result of the study showed that there was statistically significant effect of nesting at 60th minute, temperature (t=5.03966,p<0.05), respiratory rate(t= -2.13,p<0.05) and heart rate (t=-2.59766,p<0.05). But the effect was not significant on oxygen saturation level (t=1.2,p=0.238). Hence this study result supports the use of nesting in NICU.

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The Effect of Murottal Alquran Therapy on Heart Rate, Respiration Rate, Saturation Oxygen of Premature Infants Using Mechanical Ventilation in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Proceedings of the 2nd Sriwijaya International Conference of Public Health (SICPH 2019) ◽

10.2991/ahsr.k.200612.049 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Nurhusna ◽

Fadliyana Ekawaty ◽

Andika Sulistiawan

Keyword(s):

Intensive Care Unit ◽

Heart Rate ◽

Mechanical Ventilation ◽

Intensive Care ◽

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽

Respiration Rate ◽

Premature Infants ◽

Neonatal Intensive Care

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THE EFFECT OF LISTENING TO MUROTTAL QUR'AN ON THE OXYGEN SATURATION LEVEL IN PRETERM INFANTS IN THE NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

Belitung Nursing Journal ◽

10.33546/bnj.365 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (5) ◽

pp. 457-461

Author(s):

Dina Sulviana Damayanti ◽

Djauhar Ismail ◽

Warsiti Warsiti

Keyword(s):

Intensive Care Unit ◽

Intensive Care ◽

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽

Oxygen Saturation ◽

Preterm Infants ◽

Neonatal Intensive Care ◽

Healing Process ◽

Saturation Level ◽

Intensive Care Unit Treatment ◽

Oxygen Saturation Level

Background: Preterm infants are at risk for respiratory and hypothermia disorders that may affect physiologic growth and development processes that can be aggravated by treatment processes while in the neonatal intensive care unit. Treatment in the NICU can trigger stress that can affect the vital signs and healing process of preterm infants, thus requiring non-medical treatment to stimulate the condition. This research provides a different treatment of sound therapy that has never been given to preterm infants in previous studies by listening murottal Al-Qur'an.Objective: To examine the effect of listening to the murottal Qur'an on oxygen saturation in preterm infants during treatment at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).Method: This was a pre-experimental study with one group pretest-postest design from September to October 2017. The samples were 30 preterm infants treated at NICU of the General Hospital of Panembahan Senopati Bantul selected using accidental sampling. The analysis used was simple linear regression.Result: There was an increase of the oxygen saturation level after given intervention of Murottal Qur'an for 3 days. The first day of oxygen saturation intervention increased by 2.07%, the second day 3.75%, and the third day 4.65% compared to the oxygen saturation level before the intervention.Conclusion: Listening to murrotal Qur'an could statistically increase oxygen saturation, but clinically there was no significant change in preterm infants, as the increase of oxygen saturation level was still within normal limits.

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Domain Adaptation for Heart Rate Extraction in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

2020 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) ◽

10.1109/bibm49941.2020.9313123 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Diogo Malafaya ◽

Sara Domingues ◽

Helder P. Oliveira

Keyword(s):

Intensive Care Unit ◽

Heart Rate ◽

Intensive Care ◽

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽

Neonatal Intensive Care ◽

Domain Adaptation

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Characterisation of Textile Embedded Electrodes for Use in a Neonatal Smart Mattress Electrocardiography System

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s21030999 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 999

Author(s):

Henry Dore ◽

Rodrigo Aviles-Espinosa ◽

Zhenhua Luo ◽

Oana Anton ◽

Heike Rabe ◽

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Keyword(s):

Intensive Care Unit ◽

Heart Rate ◽

Intensive Care ◽

High Resolution ◽

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽

Real Time ◽

Neonatal Intensive Care ◽

Delivery Room ◽

Proof Of Concept ◽

Heart Rate Monitoring

Heart rate monitoring is the predominant quantitative health indicator of a newborn in the delivery room. A rapid and accurate heart rate measurement is vital during the first minutes after birth. Clinical recommendations suggest that electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring should be widely adopted in the neonatal intensive care unit to reduce infant mortality and improve long term health outcomes in births that require intervention. Novel non-contact electrocardiogram sensors can reduce the time from birth to heart rate reading as well as providing unobtrusive and continuous monitoring during intervention. In this work we report the design and development of a solution to provide high resolution, real time electrocardiogram data to the clinicians within the delivery room using non-contact electric potential sensors embedded in a neonatal intensive care unit mattress. A real-time high-resolution electrocardiogram acquisition solution based on a low power embedded system was developed and textile embedded electrodes were fabricated and characterised. Proof of concept tests were carried out on simulated and human cardiac signals, producing electrocardiograms suitable for the calculation of heart rate having an accuracy within ±1 beat per minute using a test ECG signal, ECG recordings from a human volunteer with a correlation coefficient of ~ 87% proved accurate beat to beat morphology reproduction of the waveform without morphological alterations and a time from application to heart rate display below 6 s. This provides evidence that flexible non-contact textile-based electrodes can be embedded in wearable devices for assisting births through heart rate monitoring and serves as a proof of concept for a complete neonate electrocardiogram monitoring system.

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Using a behavior analytics approach to change nursing care of extremely premature infants: A pilot study

Journal of Nursing Education and Practice ◽

10.5430/jnep.v9n5p14 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (5) ◽

pp. 14

Author(s):

Jenn Gonya ◽

Jessica Niski ◽

Nicole Cistone

Keyword(s):

Intensive Care Unit ◽

Intensive Care ◽

Pilot Study ◽

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽

Premature Infant ◽

Premature Infants ◽

Nursing Care ◽

Neonatal Intensive Care ◽

Extremely Premature Infant

The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is, inherently, a trauma environment for the extremely premature infant. This trauma is often exacerbated by nurse caregiving practices that can be modified and still remain effective. Our study explored how behavior analytics could be used to implement an intervention known as Care by Cues and how the intervention might, ultimately, impact infant physiologic stability.

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