Study on the design of automatic turning over nursing mattress for neonatal incubator / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To design a new mattress according to clinical requirement and to observe its effect of reducing the time of changing sheets, weighing, saving nursing time of artificial posture and decreasing the extent of the drop in the temperature of the baby incubator. Methods Functional requirements and parameters of new-type mattress were designed through searching and summing up a large number of literatures concerned. The standard premature infant models weighing 1500 g were selected as the experimental object. 180 cases in the experimental group were placed in the insulation incubators of the new-type mattress, and 180 cases in the control group were placed in incubators with ordinary mattresses. Results The new-type mattress has the function of designing the shape of bird's nest, changing posture automatically and monitoring physique in real time. Volume data and equipped with skull-sensing headphones. Simulation experiment displayed that the time of changing sheets between the new mattress and the ordinary mattress was (4.04 ± 0.41) s and (18.07 ± 2.54) s, and the weighing time was 1.00 s and (37.93 ± 5.19) s. The daily nursing time of artificial posture was 0.00s and (5.40 ± 0.48) s and (0.08 ± 0.23)℃and (2.08 ± 0.57)℃. The difference was statistically significant(t=-151.74-45.36, P<0.05). Conclusion The new mattress can reduce the time of weighing weight and changing sheets, save the nursing time of artificial posture and decrease the extent of the drop in the temperature of the baby incubator .