Analgesia following music and therapeutic suggestions in the PACU in ambulatory surgery; a randomized controlled trial

Background: This study was designed to determine whether music (M), or music in combination with therapeutic suggestions (M/TS) could improve the postoperative recovery in the immediate postoperative in daycare surgery. Methods: One‐hundred and eighty‐two unpremedicated patients who underwent varico...

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Published in:Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 2003-03, Vol.47 (3), p.278-283
Main Authors: Nilsson, U., Rawal, N., Enqvist, B., Unosson, M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
ambulatory surgery
Ambulatory Surgical Procedures
Anaesthesiology
Analgesia
Anestesiologi
Anesthesia
Anesthesia Recovery Period
Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy
Biological and medical sciences
Calibration
Female
Heart Rate - physiology
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
MEDICIN
Medicin och hälsovetenskap
MEDICINE
Middle Aged
Miscellaneous
music
Music Therapy
Nursing Science
Oxygen - blood
oxygen saturation
pain
Pain Measurement
post-operative
Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting - epidemiology
Prospective Studies
Recovery Room
Suggestion
therapeutic suggestions
Vårdvetenskap
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Summary:Background: This study was designed to determine whether music (M), or music in combination with therapeutic suggestions (M/TS) could improve the postoperative recovery in the immediate postoperative in daycare surgery. Methods: One‐hundred and eighty‐two unpremedicated patients who underwent varicose vein or open inguinal hernia repair surgery under general anaesthesia were randomly assigned to (a) listening to music (b) music in combination with therapeutic suggestions or (c) blank tape in the immediate postoperative period. The surgical technique, anaesthesia and postoperative analgesia were standardized. Analgesia, the total requirement of morphine, nausea, fatigue, well‐being, anxiety, headache, urinary problems, heart rate and oxygen saturation were studied as outcome variables. Results: Pain intensity (VAS) was significantly lower (P = 0.002) in the M (2.1), and the M/TS (1.9) group compared with the control group (2.9) and a higher oxygen saturation in M (99.2%) and M/TS (99.2%) group compared with the control (98.0%), P 
ISSN:0001-5172
1399-6576
1399-6576
DOI:10.1034/j.1399-6576.2003.00064.x