A new clinical study on the effects of music in the PACU (post-anesthesia care unit) has just come in from Sweden. The final result is that “These findings promote use of listening to music to establish a healing environment for patients in a postanaesthesia care unit.” Patients’ perception of music versus ordinary sound in a […]
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Interesting info about history of anesthesia
This historical information about the use of anesthesia during surgery appeared the The Boston Globe on June 6, 2009
Plastic surgery and …criminology???
Plastic Surgery and criminology? This is a different kind of post, but I thought it was interesting and I would share it with you. Enjoy! Drug Kingpin who’d had Plastic Surgery nailed by computer voice recognition! In a story that brings to mind John Woo’s “Face-off” which starred John Travola and Nic Cage as an […]
Music and Hip Replacements?
By Dr. Alice Cash on December 22, 2008 in joint replacement surgery, Music and Surgery, Surgery with Music
Music and Hip Replacements This morning I was working with a new client of mine who is having total hip replacement surgery. She’s 75 years old and has had a couple of unfortunate surgical experiences lately in large hospitals. This time she’s decided to go with a small local hospital and to try some alternative […]
Are you having surgery anytime soon?
Anyone who has been reading my blogs, ezines, and ebooks knows that I’m a huge believer in the healing power of music during surgery! There is just so much documentation of the ability of music to help people use less anesthesia during the procedure, less anxiety medication before and less pain medication after. What people […]