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Effect of music therapy in the perioperative anaesthesia requirement in patients undergoing laparascopic cholecystectomy

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Author Details : Kirti N Saxena*, Devika Mishra, Moushumi Saha, Bharti Wadhwa

Volume : 12, Issue : 1, Year : 2025

Article Page : 132-138

https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijca.2025.020

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Abstract

Background: Music can create conditioned relaxation and helps in reducing stress levels. In clinical practice, music therapy can be combined with pharmacological treatment modalities to achieve additive or synergistic effects and to minimize the side effects associated with polypharmacy.
Materials and Methods: 70 patients of American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) classification I–II, age between 18 and 50 years with body mass index (BMI) ?30 kg/m2 who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy under general anaesthesia were randomly assigned to two groups (n = 35): the music group (M) and the no-music group (NM). Intraoperative hemodynamic stability, occurrence of awareness, postoperative pain and anxiety level and patient satisfaction were evaluated and compared between two groups.
Results: The patients in the music therapy group had better awakening quality (3.76 ± 1.64 vs. 5.11 ± 2.13; p < 0> Conclusion: Intraoperative music therapy can be an effective method to decrease perioperative pain, anxiety and incidence of intraoperative awareness with better intraoperative hemodynamic stability and less perioperative analgesic consumption. In addition, it also showed a positive effect on postoperative parameters and level of sedation.
 

Keywords: Music therapy, Anaesthetic requirement, Stress response, General anaesthesia, Laparoscopic surgery.

How to cite : Saxena K N, Mishra D, Saha M, Wadhwa B, Effect of music therapy in the perioperative anaesthesia requirement in patients undergoing laparascopic cholecystectomy. Indian J Clin Anaesth 2025;12(1):132-138

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