Researches have found music therapy to be an effective method of reducing pain, anxiety, regulating blond pressure, cardiac and respiratory frequencies in intensive care patients. It also lower sedation and analgesic levels, in patients. Please have a look at the following RG links.

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I don't know much about its use in such environments, but music is generally calming. It reaches back to our earlier evolutionary history. And music therapy is a growing area of study. Doing a very quick search, I did find this paper. Article Role of music in intensive care medicine

Researches have found music therapy to be an effective method of reducing pain, anxiety, regulating blond pressure, cardiac and respiratory frequencies in intensive care patients. It also lower sedation and analgesic levels, in patients. Please have a look at the following RG links.

Article What is the role of music in the intensive care unit?

Article Is there a role for music in the ICU?

Article The therapeutic use of music as experienced by cardiac surge...

Article The effects of music therapy on anxiety, pain and the amount...

Article The Effect of Live Spontaneous Harp Music on Patients in the...

Article Role of music in intensive care medicine

Article The Effect Of Music Therapy On Pain And Anxiety In Intensive...

Article Effects of music during daytime rest in the intensive care u...

may be useful for someone but not for majority

Depends on the people.

There are reports of benefits on the effect of music for the management of pain, agitation, delirium in critically ill patients.

I don't think so. Majority of the patients may not be interested in music. Although I have observed LCD TV in the waiting areas of private hospitals. Different LCD showing different channels, such as national geographic, cricket match, animals world etc with no sound. I have not observed music in any hospital.

Music facilities are generally available in hotels and restaurants.

Therefore, I am not in support of this idea.

Music therapy is a different concept and can be tried on special patients in special circumstances.

Catia Cillóniz , I had brain surgery (to remove a tumor) about 5 years ago, and once I arrived at home I spent most of the day in extreme pain, and was only able to sleep a couple hours at a time, unless I happen to be playing relaxing "classical" music. I assumed that it took my mind off of obsessing about the tumor (or the hole in my head!). I am not really sure how it worked so well - I am a Botanist, not a medical doctor -- but it seemed that so much of the pain was tied to my anxiety/obsessions. As long as I was able to relax my body, the pain simply dissipated.

And it is not only the humans in my life that I have noticed having positive reactions to the music. My house-rabbits are "free range" so they walk all through the house. But whenever I put on the theme to "Raiders of the Lost Ark", I had one rabbit that would start to run and leap throughout the living-room (like he was insane!). I also have a terrarium of "fire belly toads", that loves to sing and "purr" to Chopin, Liszt and Mozart.

shalom! - Julia.

are there some scientific researches about the effect of music on the patients

Hi Catia you can review the following etexts:

Bonde, Lars Ole, Music and medicine and music therapy in hospitals – An overview of practices and evidence;

The Joanna Briggs Institute, The Joanna Briggs Institute Best Practice Information Sheet: Music as an intervention in hospitalsnhs_583 99..102;

Rodrigo Lopes da Silva, Humor and music to reduce the stress and pain related to invasive diagnostic and therapeutical procedures in patients with hematological malignancies;

Mayor, Susan, Listening to music helps reduce pain and anxiety after surgery, review shows;

Wulff, Verena; Hepp, Philip; Fehm, Tanja; Schaal, Nora, Music in Obstetrics: An Intervention Option to Reduce Tension, Pain and Stress,; Grafton-Clarke, Ciaran; Grace, Laura; Harky, AmerMusic therapy following cardiac surgery—is it an effective method to reduce pain and anxiety?

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Regards

I think the following article will benefit you in your search

Article The influence of music during mechanical ventilation and wea...

Best Regards Catia Cillóniz

There are lots of studies documenting the value of music therapy and even just hearing music to assist in changing emotional states. From what I have read and heard from music therapists, it's more valuable for the patient to choose their music than to just assume that one type of music in the background will work for everyone. For example, women with scheduled C-sections were involved in a study where they got to choose what music to have on in the OR. My friend, the music therapist was a bit surprised at the huge variety- everything from classical to country western to hard rock, etc.

من الضروري استخدام الموسيقى للعلاج لان هذا يساعدهم في تهدئة النفس ويؤثر على تحسن حالته الصحية

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Valuable suggestion to bring quick recovery of patient by the uses of music therapy which is scientifically proven.

You might find Tia DeNora's work a valuable starting point for your research. While she is perhaps more interested in everyday uses of music (to accompany exercise routines and so on) and doesn't specialise in music and therapeutic applications per se, the bibliographpies might provide some interesting avenues.

In a South African context, this article migh also be useful:

Susan Harrop-Allin, Victoria Hume, June Fabian, Harriet Etheredge & Michael McCallum (2017) “Humanising Healthcare Spaces”: Report on the Development and Impact of a Music Collaboration Between Community Music and Donald Gordon Medical Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Muziki, 14:2, 55-80, DOI: 10.1080/18125980.2017.1379884

Good question.

Could be for the stimulation of the brain to keep the dying patient mentally alive as long as possible.

I think that music has a powerful and underestimated influence on mental health; high-quality music makes the patients feel better and even help to reduce the perception of pain.

I usually find this question asked in relation to the well being of the surgeon during an operating list(but not neccessarily anaesthetist!).

I have had one surgeon who enjoyed heavy metal,and another who cannot operate comfortably without dance/beach tracks playing.....each to his own!

We don't routinely use music in open areas of the ITU or hospital,but do permit patient's own devices(not just music but video also) for both conscious and sedated patients.

I do think that use of music tailored to the patient is useful and relaxing,and therefore that already on a patient's own devices is ideal.