Dear friend

Simply adding music can create amazing, powerful results in healthcare. So providers need to consider how they can improve music for hospitals, as well as private practices and other medical locations.

Leave no room in silence. Music is proven to calm nerves and aid in relaxation so utilize overhead music in all of the rooms and areas of your healthcare facility. Ensure that patients and their loved ones are never left in silence in:

Waiting areas

Hallways

Nurses stations

Exam rooms

Operating rooms

Recovery rooms

Carefully consider your musical selection. Music has an impact on people’s feelings and moods, so choose your playlist carefully to ensure that it suits your patients and their loved ones. Consider how you want the music to impact and serve your patients and select the playlist that best matches those goals.

Also, make sure that your music for hospitals is suitable for your staff too. Overhead music that is constantly played in a location can frustrate employees. So choose playlists that won't annoy your doctors, nurses, and administration.

Give patients options. If you want to really use music to help patients, put the power in their hands. Offer tools that allow them to select and listen to music on their own.

Offer headphones

Provide a library of music

Use interactive digital signs that allow patients to make selections.

Consider working with a licensed professional. If you aren’t sure how you can use music to improve the healthcare outcomes for your patients, consider working with a licensed music therapist. They can help you develop plans proven to work specifically for your type of patient or treatment.

Don’t overdo it. As with most things, music for hospitals must be delivered with the right amount of moderation. When you set up sound systems in your rooms and hallways, ensure that you have the right volume and balance.

While music can have a positive impact on the morale of patients, it can quickly create a negative impact if the sound is too loud or invasive. Work with audio and video specialists to get the right volume and quality.

Music for hospitals is just one of the ways that you can improve the environment of your healthcare location in order to provide better patient experiences and healthcare outcomes. Things like interactive wayfinding, informative digital signs and other improvements can improve your patients' experiences and help to modernize your location.

ref: The Healing Power of Music for Hospital Patients (spectrio.com)

This reminds me of when I had just qualified as a nurse and worked in a hospital for older people. Sometimes, I used to take an acoustic guitar onto the ward in the afternoon and play well known, folk type songs. They used to sing along and I used to enjoy it. But it was usually busy, so I didn't get more than about 15 minutes. Which saved me running out of suitable things to play!

We assume that music is good for everyone, but what music? And what music is better than silence? I dread someone coming up to me in a hospital with the assumption that I must like a particular piece of music.

My mother, as she lay dying, was listening to Schubert's first piano trio. The consultant came by and saw that she was in tears. He asked her if she was all right.

My mother slowly took off her headphones.

Ah, poor Schubert, she said.

Very serious questions.

Dear professor ‍Conroy,

In addition to the music itself, variables such as personality, memories, physiological conditions, etc. can also be involved in whether or not music is enjoyable. In the words of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus, "phenomena are not good or bad in themselves, but it is the human mind that causes a phenomenon to be good or bad." Therefore, the important role of relativity should not be forgotten.

Best Regards

Every human being is interested in a special type of music. As a member of the health care team, keep in mind that one type of music may be enjoyable for one patient and disgusting for another.

The conductor (and rogue) Sir Thomas Beecham, used to say

Oh the world's a peculiar place

And people are hard to suit,

And the man who plays on the violin

Is a bore to the man with the flute.

Music therapy is a clinical intervention that with the use of music obtains therapeutic benefits. This clinical intervention can be applied to treat the physical, psychological, cognitive, emotional and social functions of the individual; Thanks to its benefits, MAINLY TO REDUCE ANXIETY AND PAIN (although it also facilitates breathing -that is why it is being applied in Covid- and heart rate), this treatment has taken a great boom in the US - "Music Medicine" -, in Europe and -of course- in Spain in hospitals such as "La Zarzuela", "La Moraleja" and the University Clinic of Navarra, etc. in interaction and complement to other treatments, obtaining VERY POSITIVE RESULTS and there are several Postgraduate courses -Masters and Experts- in Music Therapy; as it is valid for all human conditions, it can be used with any type of patient. By way of illustration, examples of Articles, etc. are provided below and separately about

sorry: on the matter; It is also being implemented in several Latin American countries (Mexico, Argentina, Cuba, etc.)

-Ortega E, Esteban L, Estévez A and Alonso A. Applications of music therapy in special education and in hospitals. DOI: https://doi.org/10.30552/ejep.v2i2.22. European Journal of Education and Psychology (EJEP); Vol. 2 No. 2 (2009)

- AJHUACHO R. HOSPITAL PALLIATIVE MUSICOTHERAPY Learning Unit Plan: RESPONSE OF THE TERMINAL PATIENT REGARDING THE KUBLER-ROSS CHRONIC DISEASE ACCEPTANCE SCALE. September, 2019.http: //hdl.handle.net/123456789/16065

- Ceballos L. Music therapy and integral development in children with prolonged hospitalization stays in a hospital classroom context. https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/63080

- Oneca-Carreras N. Music therapy: fundamentals, practical aspects and application to hospitalized children. DADUN (Digital Academic Deposit University of Navarra) https://dadun.unav.edu/

- Gassull L and Rodríguez D - 2009 -

The insertion of music therapy attendees in the hospitals of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. cluster.usal.edu.ar

- Hernandez-Ruiz, E. (2005). Music Therapy in Mexico: Another Style. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 5 (2). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v5i2.236

-N Montalvo Velasco - 2017- [PDF] Music therapy in hospital classrooms - core.ac.uk

- Gómez-Gallego M and Gómez-García J

Music therapy and Alzheimer's disease: Cognitive, psychological, and behavioral effects

Neurology (English Edition), Volume 32, Issue 5, June 2017, Pages 300-308

AMONG MANY OTHERS

Thank you very much for sharing this question

Music helps heal.

Music therapy is a secure and widely recognized intervention that is usually given in a person-centered way in health care facilities to relieve symptoms and improve quality of life.

However, it is important to remember that to exploit the potential of music therapy in an optimal way, specialized academic and clinical training and careful selection of intervention techniques to fit the needs of the clients are essential.

Bringing Music Into the Hospital to Enhance Care

https://intermountainhealthcare.org/blogs/topics/pediatrics/2018/01/bringing-music-into-the-hospital-to-enhance-care/

Bringing music Into the medical settings to enhance care is useful because this approach provides an emotional outlet, It offers a distraction during treatment,

It improves overall physical rehabilitation, It facilitates movement and the connection between the brain and body; and It increases motivation to engage in treatment.

Humans have observed two forms of life: chords (meridians, chakras, etc.) and cells (organisms); from two kinds of observers: chord (tonal) observer (self-observer) and non-chord (atonal) Observer (Outer Observer) - Life is the second layer of existence of both.

There is a chord system on the human body, found by self-observation methods, manifested as: meridian (chakra) system; the twelve meridians have the characteristic frequency of the stimulus response, distributed as: equal temperament, which is isomorphic with music and painting, and can be expressed mathematically with chords.

Preprint Chord Biology

Preprint Chord Language

I am starting a research project on Assessing Provider Adherence to Music Therapy in Awake Cesarean Section. I am a nurse anesthesiologist and have witnessed the benefits of this therapy first hand. The literature review supports its use and benefits. I am looking for a survey tool to evaluate practitioner adherence to application this therapy, their knowledge, and observation.

Music therapy can be used in palliative care. A culture of using this effective treatment should be created.

Thanks for the great question.

I got very good results in my study in which I examined the effects of music on CABG patients. In that process, we tried to share the results with the team and include them in the routine practice, and the practice of music for patients continued until there were major changes in the team members. I think the persuasion of the team is the key point for the dissemination of the application.

Fundamental theoretical issues need to be addressed. Principle, process, quantification, etc.