ICU Psychosis - delirium
Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 by chris smith
It was recently brought to my attention that Sonicu might play a vital role in improving the health of patients in Intensive Care Unit (ICU's) as well as NICU's.  Specifically, some believe Sonicu can greatly benefit those susceptible to ICU Psychosis or Delirium.  Normally, when people are seeking out Sonicu as a Baby monitoring system or Neonatal monitor, they find us on the web and give us a call.  It is normally during a baby's Neonatal Period that our product receives the most attention.  With the advent of new research, Sonicu could be the Audio Monitor of choice for ICU's to control the loud noises in their ICU's and common areas as well. 
A recent article at http://www.medicinenet.com/icu_psychosis/article.htm explains

Environmental Causes (Snipet of Article)

  • Sensory deprivation: A patient being put in a room that often has no windows, and is away from family, friends, and all that is familiar and comforting.
  • Sleep disturbance and deprivation: The constant disturbance and noise with the hospital staff coming at all hours to check vital signs, give medications, etc.
  • Continuous light levels: Continuous disruption of the normal biorhythms with lights on continually (no reference to day or  night).
  • Stress: Patients in an ICU frequently feel the almost total loss of control over their life.
  • Lack of orientation: A patient's loss of time and date.
  • Medical monitoring: The continuous monitoring of the patient's vital signs, and the noise generated by monitoring devices can be disturbing and create sensory overload.

Let's hope some forward thinking and proactive hospitals will look to Sonicu to help in this regard.  Sonicu can even aide with the lighting by controlling the day cycle of overhead lighting.  It's built under the hood of every Sonicu controller. (requires ballast change out)

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Sonicu in nicu Journal
Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 by chris smith
There was a recent article run in neonatal Intensive Care: The Journal of Perinatology-Neonatology about Sonicu.  The article describes what my audio monitor does and called the Sonicu system the "first fully networked and integrated sound monitoring and advisory system for the NICU and other environments where excessive noise levels are a problem."
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