Music Therapy For Ventilated Patients

Music Therapy is used for many reasons and can be helpful in many ways. Music has been proven to be a therapeutic service to people because it’s helped people to contain themselves and even express themselves through the music that they listen to. This treatment is beneficial to many humans because it’s a good way to help one’s emotions without any medication (American Music Therapy Association). For example, music is used to treat pain and reduce stress. In Amy Novotney’s article about music therapy, she says, “The beep of ventilators and infusion pumps, the hiss of oxygen, the whir of carts and the murmur of voices as physicians and nurses make rounds — these are the typical noises a premature infant hears spending the first days of life in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). While the sounds of such life-saving equipment are tough to mute, a new study suggests that some sounds, such as lullabies, may soothe pre-term babies and their parents, and even improve the infants' sleeping and eating patterns, while decreasing parents' stress (Pediatrics, 2013)” (Novotney). Another example of how music is a reliable therapeutic resource is for people with autism. In Catherine Ulbricht’s article, she states that “People who have autism spectrum disorders often show a heightened interest and response to music. This may

In today’s day and age, people cannot go anywhere or do anything without listening to music. From elevator music, to exercise in the gym, to background music in restaurants, to the radio in the car, we cannot escape music. It is such an overlooked yet essential part of our daily lives, but what is unknown by many is that music is also used very deliberately in the lives of others. Many hospitals use music therapy to help treat their stroke patients, premature infants, those diagnosed with Alzheimer 's disease, etc. One might wonder why physicians do this, but the more prevalent questions is whether music therapy is effective or not.

According to Geretsegger et al. (2014), music therapy is an effective clinical intervention for a varied of medical conditions, which are profoundly supported by strong scientific evidence on their significance for mood enhancement and stress relief. The five conditions for which music therapy has been studied, backed up by good scientific evidence are; dementia, autism, sleep quality, depression and infant development.

Due to the extensive procedures surrounding treatment, patients often experience a variety of physical and psychological symptoms and side effects that negatively impact their quality of life and ability to cope with and manage an illness. Providing a choice of music during a receptive music therapy session may not only distract the patient from negative affective states, but also may provide a sense of autonomy and control over a patient 's immediate environment. The purpose of the essay was to determine whether receptive music therapy can improve two general dimensions of emotional experience and pain in a single session for patients. The guiding research question was: Will participants experience improved positive affect following a music therapy session? In my opinion ,I think the answer is yes. music therapy definitely have a positive effect on patients.

For this example, we develop the question: In a pre-procedure setting, does listening to music help reduce the level of anxiety for adult patients undergoing a stressful procedure? The question falls into the clinical therapy category because it seeks to answer the question about the effectiveness of music. To find best practice, we search literature databases for recent experimental or quasi-experimental studies that are appropriate to the question (LoBiondo-Wood & Haber, 2014-a). The following articles show examples of research that examine the relationship between music and anxiety. Kim, Evangelista, and Park (2015) conducted an integrative review and meta-analysis that finds music intervention has a positive effect on reducing anxiety for patients on hemodialysis. Mohammadi, Mirhagher, Torabi, Mirsane, and Moradi (2014) conducted and randomized quasi-experimental study that shows a significant decrease in physiological parameters and anxiety levels in the trial group when compared to the control group. Thompson, Moe, and Lewis (2014) conducted a quasi-experimental study that finds a significant decrease in anxiety for patients who listen to music before surgery. It shows that the higher the level of anxiety, the greater the benefit from the

76) pointed out that music therapy has proven to decrease anxiety and pain score, reduce heart rate and blood pressure in the intensive care unit but also, Danielsson, Scherman, & Rosberg (2013, p. 608) offered that physical therapist use an individualized relaxation exercises to understand and discern between different bodily responses and to disseminate expression of anxiety, inciting fear to be less terrifying.

The facility was large and professional. It was very clean and had hand sanitizers mounted next to almost every door. Before and after every session we were required to use these hand sanitizers. The facility was a bit difficult to navigate as it was made from many additional pieces together. None of the hospital was very inviting, it mostly appeared to be what it was, a hospital. The colors were subdued and neutral and the entire place smelled very sterile.

869). Techniques of musical integration used by trained therapists, such as inner rehearsal, auditory-motor feedback training, intonation, and left-hand tapping, have promoted and facilitated the regression of stroke symptoms more effectively than rudimentary language-training strategies alone, proving to be very useful in the field of medical rehabilitation.

Many nurses or other healthcare providers may be hesitant in utilizing music therapy for their patients but there are several documented studies providing the positive results of music therapy. One example provided by The Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing, demonstrated in a study using 60 pediatric patients ranging from one month through five years in comparing the effect of music therapy to that of chloral hydrate requiring EEG testing. The study highlighted the percentage of children who were able to complete the EEG was 50% using chloral hydrate and 97.1% using Music Therapy. This was the first study of its kind in quantifying and comparing the effects of music therapy. (Loewy, Hallan, Friedman, & Martinez, 2005, pp. 325-331)

In order to relieve patients, nurses are often required to administer risky sedation medication which has equally disturbing side effects that include vomiting, hypotension, respiratory depression, and much more. And yet, something as inexpensive as music has yet to be truly tested as a non-pharmacological therapy for these situations. For the most part, music’s healing power has the ability to become a method of distraction and promote peace through reducing sympathetic nerve control, which involves respiration rates, muscle tension, and gastric activity (Austin 2010). After all, it seems to be promising in neutralizing the anxiety based symptoms associated with sedation or ventilation which could lead to a breakthrough in holistic

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects on humans. “The effects of music therapy on anxiety, postoperative pain and physiological reactions to emotional and physical distress in patients undergoing spinal surgery” (pi-chu, man-ling, li-ching, hsiu-chu, chiong-chu, 2011). The

The items of the BAI were drawn from three earlier self-report instruments that measured various aspects of anxiety. The BAI was developed with adult psychiatric outpatients and the manual recommends using caution with other clinical populations.

I recently read and reviewed the article titled Music as a nursing intervention: Effects of music listening on blood pressure, heart rate, and respiratory rate in abdominal surgery patients by Anne Vaajoki, MNSc, RN, Paivi Kankkunen, PhD, RN, Anna-Maija Pietila, PhD, RN, and Katri Vehvilainen-Julkunen, PhD, RN from the Department of Nursing Science, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland (2011). The article is based on a study evaluating the effects of those listening to music on their blood pressure, and respiratory

Music intervention (MI) is a low-cost, non- invasive nursing intervention that is used to facilitate healing through pre-recorded music (Nilsson, 2011) and can be used for relaxation by acting as a pleasant stimulus to block out anxiety, fear and tension (Lindquist, Snyder & Tracy, 2014). Anxiety is thought to be an emotional response that can affect the cognitive abilities of an individual, causing mental and physical discomfort (Vaughn, Wichowski & Bosworth, 2007), and can be directly related to uncertainty about surgical procedures and various other personal factors that will be uniquely experienced by patients (Wakim, Smith & Guinn, 2010). Patients in acute settings awaiting surgical procedures often experience significant

Results indicated statistically significant differences for 4 of the 6 quality of life measures: anxiety, perception of hospitalization, relaxation, and stress. This indicates that live music therapy using patient-preferred music can be beneficial in improving quality of life indicators in patients undergoing surgical procedures of the brain.