Music may help patients recover more quickly after surgery
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Heart surgery can be stressful, but researchers may have found a way to reduce patients anxiety and postoperative pain without any extra side effects.
A team from the Netherlands found that the simple act of listening to music around the time of surgery may help patients as they recover.
Advertisement This is a fascinating question for heart surgeons because we perform the most invasive procedures that require opening the chest, stopping the heart, using a heart-lung machine while we fix the heart, and then allowing the patient to return to life again, said Dr. Harold Fernandez, a U.S. cardiac surgeon unconnected to the new study.
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By Ernie Mundell and Cara Murez
HealthDay Reporters
FRIDAY, Jan. 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) Heart surgery can be stressful, but researchers may have found a way to reduce patients anxiety and postoperative pain without any extra side effects.
A team from the Netherlands found that the simple act of listening to music around the time of surgery may help patients as they recover. This is a fascinating question for heart surgeons because we perform the most invasive procedures that require opening the chest, stopping the heart, using a heart-lung machine while we fix the heart, and then allowing the patient to return to life again, said Dr. Harold Fernandez, a U.S. cardiac surgeon unconnected to the new study.