Music With Surgery: What You Should Know

Around the world today surgeons are operating on people and the surgeons are listening to their own favorite music while doing this. Why? Because they know the power of music and the profound effect it has on their ability to focus and concentrate on what they are doing. The surgeons are listening to Mozart, Wagner, Handel, and sometimes rock and roll or jazz! They claim that they have more energy while music is playing and that a long and tedious surgery is performed in less time and with laser-like accuracy.

For the patient, is music provided? No! Is it because the patient is “sleeping” and not able to hear the music? No! The sad fact is, most surgeons and hospital O.R.’s don’t realize that music has tremendous benefits for the patient undergoing surgery. These benefits include:

1. less anesthesia needed
2. less anxiety meds before
3. less pain meds after
4. faster recovery
5. less time in hospital
6. and many, many more

How does the patient hear the music if s/he is asleep? The patient is hearing the music through lightweight headphones, designed specifically for the OR, which put the music directly into the brain, through the 8th cranial nerve. The are many different types of music a patient can choose, but there is one key feature that all of the music shares.