Sound and health

A more intentional response to sound would be better for our health. In the operation room its music like an airport. The references they use to wake patents up. Data that music improves the mood and the carrying out of the operation. The music volume is turned up at the end, vital signs started to crash when he volume was high. Communication was limited to understand each other. The canary box- two levels of alarm warning and danger zone- turns the music off and lower when things are going wrong. Hospitals are horrible places the get better, they sound terrible. People tasking, anxiety, rolling of carts, doors slamming. When it is quiet it is 40 to 50 decibels or it can go up to 80 to 90 decibels. 80 decibels as loud as a garbage disposal. In a healing environment. Alarms difficult to localize. Alarms saturate the hospitals soundscape. 'Alarm fatigue', they eventually ignore critical alarms and people die. It is difficult for them to sleep, cause of anxiety and fear and stress. Icu delirium, is when patients get hallucinations from exhaustion. It can leave hospital patients with ptsd. Stress hormones stiffen our blood vessels which increases heart attacks. Unnecessary noise is the cruelest sense of care- Florence nightingale. There is a visual complexity in the device, the sound quality is so poor. At least make them in harmony. Acoustic sensitivity gives a reflex response. Alarms have a flat amplitude envelope, an unnatural sound in the environment. In the hospital they all blend together. Procursive amplitude envelope is a sound we may have in nature. Sound can tell you what's going on, information that is wearable and comfortable- auditory information that can mean something and you know to act upon it. Patients cant speak are still communicating through heartbeats- turn it into sound to hear what they are saying. The result is bio music- the vital signs make data into sound, skin sweat drives the melody. Non verbal autistic students to express themselves, sounds like a classical piece. Sift through data sets through sound alone. Sound is rising or falling, t understand the differences within the music. the tones and beats in the music can connect to the state of the person. The more you actively listen to jazz you are adding more colours to your pallet, can create a beautiful painting. Must make the more beautiful painting you can create in the hospital. The sonic boom, how sound influences the way we think, feel and buy. Sonic humanism. com

Sound and Health: Hospitals - 99% Invisible (99percentinvisible.org)

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