BMJ: Playing soothing music during surgery can reduce postoperative pain

Anesthesia is often thought of as a sensory sleep state, but some observations suggest that the central auditory pathline remains complete during anesthesia, such as in-serucinative consciousness.
study, published in the journal BMJ, found that listening to soothing music during surgery seemed to reduce pain and reduce the use of opioids after surgery.
recruited 385 patients from five hospitals in Germany from January to December 2018 who would undergo 1-3 hours of surgery under general anaesthetic.
, patients were randomly divided into two groups: the intervention group (n=191) and the control group (n=194).
during the operation, 20 minutes of soothing music were played repeatedly through headphones to patients in the intervention group, followed by a 10-minute silence, while the control group was assigned a blank tape.
of changes in preoperative and postoperative pain levels within 24 hours of taking opioids showed that the pain score of the intervention group decreased significantly, by an average of 25 percent, within 24 hours of surgery compared to the control group.
intervention group also had significantly lower doses of opioids within 24 hours of surgery, with a median morphine-like 4.0 mg and a median opioid 5.3 mg.
number of patients who needed opioids after surgery in the intervention group decreased significantly.
estimated that one in six patients who received the intervention did not need opioids for pain relief.
addition, playing music to patients through headphones during general anaesthetic surgery can reduce postoperative pain and opioid use as a safe, viable, and non-drug pain relief method.
the original location of Hartmuth Nowak, senior physician, Nina Zech, senior physician et al. Effect of therapeutic suggestions during general anaesthesia on postoperative pain and opioid use: multicentre randomised controlled trial. BMJ 2020MedSci Original Source: MedSci Original Copyright Notice: All text, images and audio and video materials on this website that indicate "Source: Mets Medicine" or "Source: MedSci Originals" are owned by Mets Medicine and are not authorized to reproduce by any media, website or individual, and are authorized to be reproduced with the words "Source: Mets Medicine".
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