Acoustic analysis of High Care Unit (HCU) at hospital “X” in Bandung, Indonesia

Author

Rhiana, Febi ; Sarwono, Joko ; Soelami, FX Nugroho

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. Phys., Inst. Teknol. Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia

fYear

2011

fDate

8-9 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

58

Lastpage

63

Abstract

Acoustical comfort in a hospital is utterly needed for improving patient´s recovery progress, quality of sleep, and also working quality of medical staff. A research in the study of acoustical comfort was carried out in High Care Unit (HCU) at Hospital “X”, Bandung, Indonesia. Three parameters measured and modified in this research are definition 50 (D-50), sound pressure level (SPL), and reverberation time (T-30) through simulation, actual measurement, subjective observation, and passive acoustic recommendation methods.

Keywords

acoustic analysis; acoustic noise; acoustic variables measurement; architectural acoustics; glass fibres; hospitals; reverberation; speech; walls; acoustic analysis; acoustical comfort; concrete block wall; fiber glass board; frequency 250 Hz to 2000 Hz; high care unit; noise sources; passive acoustic recommendation methods; patient recovery; reverberation time; sound pressure level; speech frequencies; subjective observation; Acoustics; Biomedical measurements; Coatings; Noise; Receivers; Time frequency analysis; acoustical comfort; definition 50 (D-50); hospital; intensive care unit; reverberation time (T-30); sound pressure level (SPL);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation, Communications, Information Technology, and Biomedical Engineering (ICICI-BME), 2011 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bandung

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1167-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICI-BME.2011.6108594

Filename

6108594