HUMIDITY CONTROL SYSTEM IN NEWBORN INCUBATOR

Enilson José Costa, Raimundo C. S. Freire, João Bosco Silva, Carlos Magno Cursino, Cláudio Oliveira, Bruno A. M. Pereira, Roniere F. L. Silva

Abstract

In this work they were developed a microcontrolled system devoted to the newborn incubator, in order to check the conditions of the environment provided to the premature newborns, a humidity control system and software that carries out the reading of the sensors. Two microprocessed, similar newborn incubator were used, for the realization of the measurements, being that one of the newborn incubator used distilled water and other one was valued without water. The measures were collected to each 2 minutes during 96 hours. The relative humidity inside newborn incubator without water and with water but, without humidity control, goes out from the band of comfort established by standard. With water and humidity control, if it kept inside established band of comfort by standard. One checked that the newborn incubator used in this inquiry does not provide to the premature newborns a totally appropriate environment taking into account the requisites of the standard NBR IEC 601-2-19.

Keywords

newborn incubator, humidity, control

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TC13 - Measurements in Biology and Medicine

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