Dot Music Can Help Premature Babies Healthy

Dot Music Can Help Premature Babies Healthy

In addition to the use of an incubator to maintain the condition of premature infants after birth, until now no new tools or methods to accelerate the growth of premature infants.
But Florida State University has created a new tool that uses music to help address the growing problem of premature babies.
Innovative tool called the Pacifier Activated Lullaby (PAL) is being offered to various hospitals around the world through a partnership with the Powers Device Technologies Inc..


PAL uses music to help the baby to be able to learn the muscle movements needed for sucking and eating better and faster.
Studies of this tool has also been shown that PAL can reduce the length of stay of premature babies in the hospital up to an average of five days.
"Not like a normal baby, premature babies are born into the world with a neurological condition lack the ability to coordinate the response of suck / swallow / breathe when feeding or being fed," said Jayne Standley, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Music Therapy at Florida State University and the inventor of the PAL as quoted by ScienceDaily, Wednesday (05/30/2012).
The longer the baby is premature to learn these essential skills, the growth will be increasingly left behind. Therefore, PAL uses a lullaby songs as extra power to accelerate this process and help premature babies eat faster and leave the hospital soon.
PAL dot-shaped wired speakers are fitted with sound and music every time the baby can suck it right dot. Lullaby music or lullabies are soft and fun of these tools is expected to make a premature baby is eager to suck movement.
Clinical studies conducted by Standley at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital (TMH), University of Georgia Hospital in Athens, the University of North Carolina Medical Center in Chapel Hill and the Women's and Children's Hospital in Baton Rouge, La., Has shown that by using the PAL, the frequency Premature babies sucking motion reaches 2.5 times more than babies who did not get the help of music.
"It's incredible to see how fast we are able to learn the baby's sucking motion after using the PAL," said Steven Terry, a nurse in the neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU) TMH.
"They were ready more quickly for feeding, out of the hospital sooner, the better able to tolerate food, so this is encouraging overall improvement in premature infants," said Steven.
This tool was pioneered by Standley more than a decade ago. After experiencing a variety of extensive testing, PAL finally getting the patent and approved by the FDA. Aware of the health and economic benefits of the PAL, then Device Technologies Powers was willing to distribute and market the tool throughout the world.
Because the preterm birth rate continued to increase (up 36 percent since the 1980's), the PAL responded by showing how the power of music can be used to help premature babies cope with the challenges of growth.
"A lot of premature babies undergoing medical procedures daily, but that just adds to stress, pain and anxiety in children. It is therefore important to add a tool that really gives them comfort while learning important life skills such as PAL standard of care in the NICU," Standley added.