Design of an Intelligent Pillow with Maternal Temperature and Heartbeat Vibrations for Comforting NICU Infants

Nandhini, P.; Janney, J Bethanney; Divakaran, Sindu

doi:10.17485/ijst/2016/v9i33/99606

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“…All the samples collected are analog samples, so they are fed to the analogy pin of Arduino Mega 2560 microcontroller. It has a built-in ADC that converts the analog samples into digital values and sends it via Bluetooth HC05 to the cushion unit [18].…”

Section: Recording Unitmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deisgn of Mobile Infant Incubator with Comforting Pillow

Janney¹,

Krishnakumar²,

Shree.P.B³

et al. 2018

IJET

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A mobile infant incubator is a preterm infant care medical tool which provides warmth, humidity and oxygen all in a controlled state of affairs as required by the New born baby. This incubator offers a clean condition, which has natural air, perfect and clean encompassing conditions for the infants. The main aim of the paper is to design and develop an Arudino based temperature and humidity control in an incubator.In the course of their initial weeks of lives infants are subjected to pain and soreness, so to conquer this major problem we have introduced a mechanism to traject maternal features to the infant. For this reasons the features are mimicked viva a pillow unit that has embedded with sensors and actuators. Our proposed system consists of sensors for monitoring critical parameters, Pillow unit for comforting the infants, GSM for transferring information to doctors and parents and Labview for output evaluation and all together controlled by Arudino microcontroller. Advances in electronic procedures combined with sparing costs influence humidity and temperature to govern realistic with fantastically precise and solid performance.

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Section: Recording Unitmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deisgn of Mobile Infant Incubator with Comforting Pillow

Janney¹,

Krishnakumar²,

Shree.P.B³

et al. 2018

IJET

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“…One of the potentially effective methods to relieve pain in neonates is to listen to the mother's heartbeat sound (Claes et al 2017). Birth is a big change to neonates' lives and familiar phenomena can connect the neonate to the new environment (Nandhini et al, 2016).…”

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“…One of the first auditory stimuli for fetuses is the mother's voice and heartbeat (Császár-Nagy, 2017), which are in the auditory range of 60-90 dB (Djordjevic, 2010). The mother's heartbeat, smell and warmth have soothing and calming effects on neonates (Nandhini et al, 2016;Babaei, Alhani and Khaleghipour, 2016). Previous studies have shown the effectiveness of the simultaneous use of the mother's voice and heartbeat sound in relieving pain in neonates (Azarmnejad et al, 2015;Doheny et al, 2012a) and improving their health-related indicators (Zimmerman et al, 2013;DeCasper and Prescott., 2009).…”

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The effect of the mother's heartbeat sound on physiological parameters and pain intensity after blood sampling in neonates in the intensive care unit: A randomized controlled clinical trial

Sarhangi

Azarmnejad

Javadi

et al. 2021

Journal of Neonatal Nursing

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Aim: To examine the effect of the mother's heartbeat sound on physiological parameters and pain intensity after blood sampling in neonates in the intensive care unit. Methods:A randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted on 60 neonates admitted to the intensive care unit. They were assigned to intervention and control groups (n=30 in each group).The intervention group listened to the mother's heartbeat sound, 10 minutes before up to 10 minutes after taking arterial blood samples. Pain intensity was measured every 10 minutes in 3 steps using the neonatal infant pain scale 10 minutes before the intervention, immediately after and 10 minutes after the intervention. At the same time, physiologic parameters including oxygen saturation, respiratory rate, heart rate and mean arterial blood pressure were recorded. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS.Results: Listening to the mother's heartbeat sound did not influence on mean arterial pressure in the intervention group. However, it had significant medium to large effects on oxygen saturation and respiratory rate immediately after and 10 minutes after the intervention. Also, it had a large effect on heart rate immediately after the intervention (P<0.05). Also, significant medium to large effects of the intervention on pain intensity immediately after and 10 minutes after blood sampling were reported (P<0.05). Conclusion:The mother's heartbeat sound can be used by nurses as a non-pharmacologic and safe intervention along with routine care in order to reduce suffering and pain in neonates undergoing invasive and painful procedures in the intensive care unit.

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A Safe and Comfort Bed for Cerebral Palsy Babies-Bedstead

Divakaran

Janney

Sudhakar

et al. 2021

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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Cerebral palsy is a disorder that affects the muscle tone, movement and motor skills. Few percent of children affected with cerebral palsy experience problems while sleeping. These include seizure attacks, muscle spasms, pain, respiratory problems, etc. Bedstead is a unique bed designed for the cerebral palsy babies, which automatically massages the baby using vibration motors when some discomfort arises. An EMG placed on the baby senses the muscle spasms, which drives the vibration motors. Additionally, an accelerometer sensor detects seizure attacks by the principle of fall detection. During a seizure attack, a technical buzzer will alarm the caregivers, thereby reducing life-threatening conditions. If left untreated, these complications can result in dangerous situations. Another feature of this set up is that the parameters sensed is uploaded in a cloud, and also sent to caregivers as well. This bed ensures that the babies can have a deep and uninterrupted sleep with little or no intervention from the professional caregivers or family members.

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Design of an Intelligent Pillow with Maternal Temperature and Heartbeat Vibrations for Comforting NICU Infants

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Deisgn of Mobile Infant Incubator with Comforting Pillow

Deisgn of Mobile Infant Incubator with Comforting Pillow

The effect of the mother's heartbeat sound on physiological parameters and pain intensity after blood sampling in neonates in the intensive care unit: A randomized controlled clinical trial

A Safe and Comfort Bed for Cerebral Palsy Babies-Bedstead

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