Title :
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
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);
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
DOI :
10.1109/ICICI-BME.2011.6108594
