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Surgical Endoscopy, 2013

Background The effect of music in the operating room is not fully understood. Through a systematic review the authors aim to give a conceptual presentation of the effect that music has on the pre-and postoperative course of surgical patients and on the effectiveness of the surgical work performed by both physicians and staff. Methods The search was conducted both on the basis of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) tree and as a text search using the Medline database (1946 to December 2011). The main search heading was ''music in operating room'' with the accessory keyword ''surgery.'' The selection criteria specified the English language and the availability of abstracts or full-text articles. From 85 articles listed with the corresponding search, 28 were relevant and enrolled for the review. Results Patients exhibit lower anxiety levels before and during surgery when hearing music and a significant reduction in analgesia and sedation requirements has been observed. Music was found to reduce the heart rate, blood pressure, and muscle effort of surgeons while at the same time increasing the accuracy of surgical tasks. Surgeons who played a musical instrument were found to perform surgical tasks faster. On the other hand, anesthesiologists report that music is associated with difficulties communicating and offering a stable level of sedation. The most appropriate music in the operating room seems to be the classical type. Conclusions Music in the operating room can have beneficial effects on patients by decreasing stress, anxiety, and the demand for analgesic and anesthetic drugs. For the surgical staff, music is considered to be distracting. For the surgeon, music can increase the speed and accuracy of task performance.

Supportive Care in Cancer, 2001

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Our study aimed to investigate the correlation between medicine, health perception, and music as well as the role of music in the healthcare setting. To gain insights into the dynamics between these two fields, we gathered opinions from attendees and presenters at an international conference on music medicine, musicians’ health, and music therapy. A team of six interviewers conducted a total of 26 semi-structured interviews. The interview guide focused on four predetermined themes: (1) “music in medicine”, (2) “performing arts medicine”, (3) “music for the individual”, and (4) “music for society”. The responses were analyzed using grounded theory methods as well as thematic and content analysis. To enhance the analytical strength, investigator triangulation was employed. Within the predefined themes, we identified several subthemes. Theme 1 encompassed topics such as “listening and performing music for treating diseases and establishing non-verbal relationships”, “the value of music...

2018

The author proposes reuniting the disciplines of music and medicine in the service of alleviating the impact of pain, addiction, and trauma on human life. Music listening can reduce symptomology, reduce the use of medicine, and reduce costs. In the author's work conducting the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) with adults in treatment for a chronic addiction, she found that after a series of GIM sessions, patients began talking about letting go, moving on, and finding empowerment and transformation.

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis

This paper highlights the role of music in psychic change through a clinical case. A patient, who was initially distant and cold, started to talk about music. An enactment around the analyst's comment about a famous conductor, started an exchange of music ''notes'' that changed the course of treatment. For the analyst, it brought old memories and musical reveries. For the patient, music allowed him to be in touch with undiscovered parts of himself and losses that had not been mourned. There was a mutual personal transformation and expanding awareness of self and other for both participants.

MedEdPublish

This article reviews the relationship between music and medicine, informed by our own personal experiences, and by leading scholars who have opened up music and medicine for critical reflection. Performing music, we suggest, is a state of being, in the moment, with fellow musicians and audience members. This establishes bidirectional communication, which can transport both parties to better places. Medicine is, likewise, an act of being with patients, whether or not performing a technical act (a clinical procedure, for example) is part of the interaction. Subjective, non-verbal, dimensions of the interaction engage both parties' senses. Good doctors, like good musicians, tune in to patients at a personal level. The limited research that has examined the relationship between music and medicine shows that music can help students develop auditory skills. Of potentially greater interest is the existential contribution music could make to medical education. We suggest that this could help students and doctors reflect on their experiences of being in the world, and how shared experience can relieve suffering.

The Oncologist, 2013

On June 24, 2007, the greatest Italian producer of classical music, Gian Andrea Lodovici, entered our oncology department for gastric cancer treatment. He came to his first examination with his belt undone, staring into the void, totally disinterested in what we were saying. He had lost complete interest in the world and had become detached from the significant things in his life, including music. Everything he would have expected, other than "the music," was waiting for him there in the oncology department. In fact, we had always tried to establish a link between oncology and music in our department. A piano has been located in the ward since 2003 and local artists have performed regularly for the inpatients.

Interface - Comunicação, Saúde, Educação, 2014

This integrative review aimed to assess the quality of scientific evidence on musical interventions in caring for cancer patients. The search strategy was conducted in July 2013, using descriptors indexed in the Bireme, Cochrane Library, Medline, Embase, Web of Science, CINAHL and Scopus databases. We selected four randomized clinical trials (two of high and two of low methodological quality) and two systematic reviews (both of high methodological quality). The greatest limitations of the clinical trials were in the descriptions of the resources and musical structures used; and of the systematic reviews, in their focus on the methodological designs. Most of the studies had high methodological quality, but the resources and musical structures used were neither described nor discussed, thereby trivializing the therapeutic potential of music and limiting replication of the studies and incorporation of evidence into clinical practice.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021

Music and Medicine, 2011

When I was diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, it plunged me into a crisis. Unexpectedly, I found myself with a desire to sing, not knowing why. I started by searching for a singing teacher but wound up in music therapy, a journey unlike anything I had experienced. Improvising in music therapy made it possible for me to face the desolation and dread of cancer and to express my deepest lament. I found new wellsprings of life in myself, while my cancer went into temporary, spontaneous remission.