heart transplants - leonard music to play?

[sebmelmoth2003]

anyone waiting for a heart transplant (from a mouse?) should note this interesting article.

...Classical music is good for the soul and maybe the heart too. Mice with heart transplants survived twice as long if they listened to classical music rather than pop music after their operation.

Masateru Uchiyama of Juntendo University Hospital in Tokyo, Japan, gave mice heart transplants from an unrelated donor which were therefore expected to be rejected. For a week following the operation, the mice continuously listened to Verdi's opera La Traviata, a selection of Mozart concertos, music by Enya, or a range of single monotones.

Mice exposed to opera fared best...

i'd like to see a study done using leonard's music.

rufus wainwright's written an opera.

many surgeons operate to a musical soundtrack : i don't know who gets to choose what's played - the senior doc in the operating room? - or whether patients recovery time is affected by what they've heard (subliminally).

plenty of scope for research here.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2 ... lants.html

[lightasabreeze]

If I was performing an operation, which I won't be, and I played Leonard's music, I would never get the blessed operation done as I would keep stopping to listen.
I even get distracted in the car until someone behind me hoots to let me know the lights have changed!

[John Etherington]

"Take one look at this Sacred Heart, before it blows"? Maybe not!

[sebmelmoth2003]

lightasabreeze - i think i agree. in the highly unlikely event that i was asked to perform complicated surgery, i'd find music too distracting.

tho' different strokes for different folks - some surgeons seem to like music while they work.

john - catholicism is cool!

i like these cans from peru!

http://re-foundobjects.com/product/view/1252591085

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01dtvv5

[sebmelmoth2003]

New data finds musical benefit for patients undergoing minor surgery

28 March 2012

Playing music in the operating theatre reduces anxiety and could improve healing time for the millions of patients who undergo operations under a local anaesthetic each year, says a new paper published today in the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons.

This work is the first to attempt to objectively and subjectively measure the effect of music on patients undergoing both planned and emergency surgical operations whilst awake...

...Mr Hazim Sadideen, the plastic surgical registrar who led this work, said: “Undergoing surgery can be a stressful experience for patients and finding ways of making them more comfortable should be our goal as clinicians...

http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/news/new-data-f ... or-surgery