Music makes for more successful surgeries

A team at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford found that listening to music during surgery can have many beneficial effects. In this study of 96 patients, half were played music during surgery and the other half underwent surgery in the typical, music-less environment. They found that the patients who listened to music "scored about a third less on anxiety levels and were also noted to have more relaxed breathing patterns during the surgery". They also suggest that the music, in addition to helping the patients, may calm surgeons as well, making surgeries more successful. 


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