Ventilator patients helped by music says study
Baku, December 9 (AZERTAC). Playing music to hospital patients on ventilators helps them to breathe more easily, findings show.
Experts at the Cochrane Library say music could be better than drugs to calm patients during forced ventilation.
In studies involving more than 200 intensive care patients, listening to music reduced anxiety and helped slow patients' breathing rates.
More work is planned to determine if the type of music played is important.
In most trials doctors had plumped for classical music, such as Mozart's piano sonatas, or easy listening.
But it may be that for some patients other genres would work just as well, if not better.
Since music can evoke intensive emotions, selecting the wrong type may agitate the patient and cause them more stress, experts caution.
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