دور الاشتراطات التصميمية في خفض مستويات الضوضاء بأقسام العناية الفائقة (ICU) فى المستشفيات المصرية

Hospital noise values increased, especially at the present time, which negatively affected the various hospital departments, The intensive care department (ICU) is one of the departments most affected by the noise due to the delicate health status of the patients staying in it on the one hand and the extent of the need for these patients to calm down to receive their treatment with the required efficiency on the other hand. This study aims to study how to reduce the values of noise levels in the departments of intensive care (ICU) by setting the design requirements for these spaces, through which we can reach the noise values inside them to the recommended international standards. To reach this goal, initially the noise values in the intensive care department of Ain Shams Specialized Hospital and Ain Shams Hospital for Women and Childbirth in Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt are monitored by means of a sound level meter to identify the noise values in these sections and the extent to which they exceed the internationally permitted values. After that, we search for solutions and architectural and design treatments that can contribute to reducing noise values by testing these treatments through the sound evaluation program (SOUND PLAN) such as choosing the appropriate site within the building block and the appropriate distribution of the department from among the hospital departments and the appropriate design for the care departments The superior and the patient rooms and nursing stations, and the sound insulation of the voids in terms of internal and external noise, and the paper reaches at the end of it to lay the foundations and standards by which to reduce the noise values in the intensive care departments