Özet:

While the development of the technology has decreased the number of infant deaths, it has increased the number of the infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). For this reason, in the light of the developmental implementations, the environment of NICU is important especially for the high risk newborn. The high risk neonates who have been exposed to noise suffer from increase in stress behaviours, disturbance, fright, decrease in healing, changes in heart-respiration rhythm, apnea, hypoxia, bradycardia, increase in systematic blood pressure, increase in intracranial pressure, loss of hearing, disruption of the sleep-wake cycle etc. Besides the unit's structure being appropriate, Healthcare professional’s preventing the noise, creating free time, turning down the volume of the devices and controling them when they are on alarm, doing the social communication away from the infants, using devices that have no noise in the unit, using such materials as rolled quilts, incubator quilts, sound absorbing panels so as to keep the infants away from noise, regular training of noise measurement and noise control are important among the applications in decreasing and controlling the noise.

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