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Ambulances are not ideal for intensive care, and in particular not for neonatal intensive care. Transport is associated with complications which can affect the babies’ mortality and morbidity. Common for the trials done to analyse the problems in various types of neonatal ambulances, is the lack of a baseline measurement, a frame of reference, and thereby comparison with other studies is not possible. When ambulances are tested in various road environments, these different environments can have crucial impact on the results. For instance if one ambulance is tested on a gravel road in a rainy weather and the result is compared with another ambulance tested on a smooth highway, their frame of reference will be very different. This paper introduces a reference method for quality assessment of sound and vibration levels in neonatal ambulances and describes the results of testing the method.

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