Digital Pharmaceutics successful in the
Special Care Baby Unit

Com­pared to full-term ba­bies they have only a lim­ited rep­er­toire of be­hav­ior, are eas­ily ir­ri­tated, their re­ac­tions are in some ways dis­turbed and barely pre­dict­able. And their daily rhythm is also ir­regu­lar. The re­la­tion­ship be­tween pre­ma­ture ba­bies and their par­ents on the sta­tion is like a vi­cious cir­cle, as the moth­ers try to com­pen­sate for their child’s lack of re­spon­sive­ness and at­ten­tion with ex­ces­sive stimu­la­tion, whilst the pre­ma­ture ba­bies, on the other hand, with­draw as a form of self-pro­tec­tion. There­fore, our code of prac­tice here reads: sup­port of the baby’s own pos­si­bili­ties, in­stead of as­sault with in­ten­sive medi­cal in­ter­ven­tion.

The use of Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® achieved the fol­low­ing re­sults: breath­ing be­came calmer and more regu­lar, and res­pi­ra­tory pauses less fre­quent. Rest­less pre­ma­ture ba­bies re­acted im­me­di­ately and fell asleep more quickly; the wak­ing pe­ri­ods were shorter. Par­ticu­larly af­ter stress situa­tions (punc­tures, in­tu­ba­tion, etc.) the chil­dren calmed down more quickly when un­der the in­flu­ence of Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® than they would oth­er­wise have done.”