Music Therapy - Beating Stress Before Surgery

🎶🎶"Music is as good as a Sedative in calming patients nerves before Surgical Operations."🎶🎶


A recent study suggests that - 🎵Playing Soothing Music🎵 to patients before anesthetizing them for surgery could calm their nerves as much as the conventional anxiety drugs.

The Researchers found that patients who listened to a relaxing song on noise-cancelling headphones had similar levels of anxiety to those who were treated with the sedatives - Midazolam. This suggests that Music could provide a drug less alternative to treat pre-surgery anxiety, a common issue that can cause Stress and Negatively Impact Recovery.

It could also minimize the risk of side effects associated with Midazolam and other common Benzodiazepine drugs, which can affect breathing, blood flow and potentially even leading to agitation. Patients needs to be closely monitored by anaesthetists after taking the drugs.

The Researchers selected 157 adults and divided them into two groups. The first half were asked to listen to an soothing instrumental track, just three minutes before they were given a nerve block anaesthetic. The other half received a 1-2mg dose of Midazolam, before the nerve block was applied as normal.The study concluded that a greater anxiety reduction in the Midazolam group, but the difference was not statistically significant from the other group who had Music Therapy.

The Researchers said that allowing patients to listen to the music for longer or choose their own Music, could improve the results. 🎵Music Therapy🎵 offers an alternative to intravenous Midazolam prior to single-injection peripheral nerve block procedures. The Researches are still on to validate the findings may be in coming days Music plays important role in everyone's life.

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