Sound Monitoring in the NICU
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“Premature and sick babies are extremely vulnerable in the NICU, and we must do all we can to protect them from adverse stimuli while they are in our care. The Sonicu reports are very useful in helping us monitor how we support a quiet, healing environment for babies in the NICU. We noticed significant improvements almost from the moment we installed Sonicu.” -Raylene Phillips, MD
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Monitoring Sound in the NICU
Loma Linda University Children's Hospital (LLUCH) had been struggling with noise in its NICU for many years. With the advent of HCAHPS studies, it became apparent that the noise problem had become hospital-wide.
The extra sound would cause stress to children and their families, making them feel uncomfortable in an already challenging environment.
Unwanted noise proved difficult to measure accurately and difficult to manage. Hospital leaders had tried many options to curtail noise and improve customer satisfaction surveys with few sustained benefits.
Neonatologist and Infant Developmental Specialist, Raylene Phillips, MD, knew that research had documented the detrimental effects of noise on premature infants.
The noise was created by the hospital staff, parents and visitors, mechanical and medical equipment, maintenance, housekeeping, and numerous other sources.
With no way to consistently and accurately monitor the noise, Dr. Phillips often had to resort to being the "Sound Cop" who personally reminded staff, parents, and visitors to lower their voices or take their conversations away from the babies' bedsides.
Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital
Loma Linda University Children's Hospital and Medical Center is a Seventh-day Adventist medical institution coeducational, Health Sciences University located in Loma Linda, California, United States.
The Children's Hospital includes an 84-bed Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
The NICU currently provides to 800+ babies, and the Children's Hospital provides to over 12,000 children each year, providing these babies and children an environment that helps calm and soothe their stress and pain.
These environments are essential for children and mothers of Loma Linda, California.
Loma Linda University provides heart care, neurological care, and general pediatric care so that families know that their children are safe and healthy.
Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital tries to help those families with these issues, by treating the children in their hospital with the best equipment and best care possible.
Loma Linda University’s Children's Hospital is just one of many hospitals that Sonicu helps with on a daily basis. Sonicu prides itself on its excellent customer support and being able to fix any issues our customers are having, ensuring the protection of their equipment and the monitoring of their facilities. With Sonicu, many hospitals, just like Loma Linda’s have been helped with protection and monitoring needs. Sonicu protects hospitals from excess sounds, protects temperature-sensitive environments, and notifies our customers when an issue arises. Sonicu's Smart alarms notify hospital staff immediately of an issue, and because of our built-in methods made for getting around alarm fatigue, it is guaranteed to help your staff overcome issues with ignored alarms.
Remote Monitoring and Advisement System Needed
Sonicu performed a needs assessment to determine the best method for Dr. Phillps's team to address their noise problems. We found no noise monitoring system in place; hospital personnel was using their ears to determine who was and wasn't being loud.
This was not an accurate or consistent way to monitor their hospital and control their sound levels.
Dr. Philips and her team could not completely monitor their hospital because not everyone could be everywhere at one time, not being able to secure an accurate report on the sound on each floor.
This method severely limits what her team could do to counteract the issue of too much sound, especially when they did try to monitor and control the amount of sound, they would be causing more issues with sound to accomplish it.
There was also no visual means of providing real-time unbiased feedback to those in a room regarding the noise level.
This obstructed Dr. Phillips and her staff from being able to see where the issue was coming from, only being able to try and hear out the problem.
But in a hospital, not only is this near impossible, but it also causes problems for the staff, as well as the patients.
The excessive noise in the facility was a serious problem that had detrimental effects on the youngest and most vulnerable patients; the NICU especially had serious issues.
With Sonicu’s Smart Alarms, these issues can be dealt with quickly and quietly. Our smart alarms include alerts like:
- Emails
- Texts
- Phone calls
- Push notifications
These messages are quiet, not adding to the sound of the hospital; they are quick and efficient, immediately informing Dr. Philips and her team of the issues at hand.
This allows them to decrease the sound that is causing the issue and be able to calm the families on the floor that is being affected.
It also eliminates the need for large alarm systems that only add to the sound in the hospital, helping to provide a better, safer environment in hospitals, just like Loma Linda Children's Hospitals.
Monitoring, Measuring, and Managing for a Safer NICU
Sonicu provided over (60) wireless Sound Indicating Meters (SIMs) for installation in LLUCH NICU. All SIMs were programmed to broadcast their data to Sonicu’s cloud-based server, SoniCloud, via a cellular gateway.
The many benefits of this type of deployment enabled Sonicu to completely pre-program all devices before shipment and bypass the hurdles often involved with having to be supported by the hospital network.
Sound data is now available 24/7 via any web-supported device. Meaning any phone, laptop, iPad, or device that can receive wifi can observe this data.
Whenever there was an issue within the hospital, Dr. Phillips, and her team were notified immediately of the issue and they could act on these issues without a loud alarm going off.
Summary reports are delivered weekly via email and keep Dr. Phillips and the NICU staff up to date on sound level trends for individual rooms and the unit as a whole.
Monitoring noise levels has never been easier. With truly actionable intelligence, Dr. Phillips is finally able to determine the effectiveness of interventions to reduce sound levels in the NICU.
Peace of Mind for the Families of Loma Linda Children's Hospital
Sonicu Helps your Hospitals Protect your Assets
Using Sonicu’s monitoring solutions, your hospital or business will have access to 24/7 monitoring, whether that be sound, frozen or cold storage, ambient temperature, air pressure, or another application.
With Sonicu’s Amazon Web Services cloud-based software, your data is automatically backed up and sent out to your team, ready to be analyzed to ensure the safety of your products.
With Sonicu, feeling at ease when you are away has never been easier. Smart alarms will be sent to you via any device that can connect to wifi, and these alerts will be sent whenever a facility is having issues.
Sonicu saves our customers thousands of dollars in lost productivity every year. We serve over 500 customers in 50 states protecting their facilities from harm.
Increase Operational Efficiency within Your Facilities
Sonicu’s easy-to-use products increase our customer's operational efficiency by decreasing the need for manual data entry and manual monitoring. Our automatic reports are analyzed by our software and then sent to you and your team.
To ensure our product helps you, we have made a wireless and easy-to-implement system that can be installed and used on the same day without backing up your team and your project with useless and time-consuming construction.
Sonicu believes that your time is valuable, so we made our product to help you eliminate hours per week that would have been spent doing tedious manual monitoring.
Sonicu’s NIST-approved systems help your hospital comply with regulatory agencies.
Sonicu has made it even easier for our customers to be compliant and ready. With our NIST-certified software, we give our customers peace of mind knowing that if the CDC, OSHA, FDA, or another regulatory agency comes by to audit or inspect their facility they will be ready.
Audits and inspections become as easy as possible using Sonicu’s software. Our reports are kept in a folder ready to be viewed. These reports can be accessed from any device within your system.
So our customers can check and report on their facility whenever and wherever.
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