Safer operations by surgeons in quiet theatres
Noise stresses surgeons and puts their patients at risk. A study using SoundEar's noise meters in a German hospital shows that simple measures can reduce the noise level and halve the number of complications from surgeries.
Patients can avoid a number of complications if hospital employees learn to make less noise and use equipment that warns them of the noise level.
156 operations were included in the study, and they succeeded in lowering the median noise levels in the operating theatre from 63 to 59 dB, a reduction the staff would perceive as the noise level being halved
