Factores ambientales de luz y ruido en las unidades de cuidados intensivos

Determining Alarm Fatigue Among Nurses in Paediatric and Adult Intensive Care Units: A Cross-Sectional Study

“…While Knauert et al measured it as 63 dB at night, Bosch et al measured it as 57.6±3.6 dB during the day and 55.4±3.1 dB at night. 27,28 As a result of the absence of noise meters in ICUs in our country, nurses suffer from alarm fatigue since the intensity of noise they are exposed to during the day is not calculated.…”

A literature review of comfort in the paediatric critical care patient

“…According to the literature in this review, noise and light are the environmental factors that cause the greatest discomfort in the ICU (Achury & Achury, ; Basco et al., ; Berglund et al., ; Gómez, ; Guillén et al., ; Krinsky et al., ; Salas & Gamaldo, ; Wagner et al., ; Wilson & Kolcaba, ), provoking as much as 57% of intensive care unit patient sleep problems (Lawson et al., ). Some studies stress that the noise levels in critical care units very often exceed the limits recommended by the WHO (Bárcenas, ; Bosch, Falcó, Santaolalla, Dominguez, & Jordan, ; Lawson et al., ; Okcu et al., ). Accordingly, all the articles consulted conclude that these factors increase stress levels in patients admitted to these units and reduce sleep quality and quantity, therefore causing discomfort (Achury et al., ; Bárcenas, ; Basco et al., ; Gómez, ; Guillén et al., ).…”