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Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Electronics, Biomedical Engineering, and Health Informatics : A Simple Design of Sterilizer Equipment for Infant Incubator Using Ultraviolet Germicidal Lamps
Infant incubator is an electromedical device used to treatment for a
newborn which has the possibility to become a place of spread infection. Therefore,
this study aims to design a simple infant incubator sterilizer as an effort to reduce
the level of nosocomial infection in the neonatal intensive care unit. The simple
design of infant incubator sterilizer has been made using UV germicidal lamps,
arduino mega, remote control, and equipped with a sterilization time setting. The
device was tested under laboratory conditions, with observational parameters
consist of sterilization time, a display showing the countdown time of sterilization
and the hour meter of the ultraviolet lamp, as well as remote testing, to turn on/off
the device. Furthermore, the effectiveness of sterilization was tested on three types
of gram-positive bacteria namely Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and
Bacillus cereus with sterilization time variations of 30, 60, 90 and 120 min. The
result of this research is a prototype of sterilizer equipment using an ultraviolet
germicidal lamp that can be applied to infant incubators. The effectiveness of
sterilization using this equipment showed a trend gradually decrease the number of
bacteria.
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