Tag: music
Music Therapy Intervention to Treat Sedation-Related Delirium in Critical Care
Sedation is an essential component of treatment for some patients admitted to the intensive care unit, but it carries a risk of sedation-related delirium. Sedation-related delirium is associated with higher mortality and... read more
Decrease Delirium in Older ICU Adults Using Music
Researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and Mayo Clinic are leading the first study to test whether exposure to music can decrease delirium in older adults who are receiving mechanical ventilation in the Intensive Care... read more
Economic Evaluation of a Patient-Directed Music Intervention for ICU Patients Receiving Mechanical Ventilatory Support
Music intervention has been shown to reduce anxiety and sedative exposure among mechanically ventilated patients. The aim of this study was to examine ICU costs for patients receiving a patient-directed music intervention... read more
A New ICU Equipment Diagram… But is it Art?
It is well established that the Arts have a clear contribution to make in the delivery of an improved healthcare experience for patients, service users and staff. Southmead Hospital (part of North Bristol NHS Trust) has a... read more
Effects of Patient-Directed Music Intervention on Anxiety and Sedative Exposure in Critically Ill Patients Receiving Mechanical Ventilatory Support
Among ICU patients receiving acute ventilatory support for respiratory failure, patient-directed music (PDM) resulted in greater reduction in anxiety compared with usual care, but not compared with NCH. Concurrently, PDM... read more
Using music to stabilize NICU babies as well as their parents
When music therapist Christine Vaskas works with babies in the neonatal intensive care unit, the effect of her interventions are almost always immediately apparent. In 2013, a study led by Joanne Loewy, the Armstrong Center's... read more
Music Helps Prevent Delirium in Elderly Critical Care Patients
A randomized controlled trial demonstrates that music intervention to prevent delirium among older patients is one of few strategies that provide support in a critical care setting. This study builds on non-pharmacologic... read more
Beyond Bleeps and Alarms: Live Music by the Bedside in the ICU
Live music by the bedside is an additional, simple and inexpensive factor in the open ICU, aiming at reducing the incidence of delirium and transform the critical care setting into a more familiar and domestic environment.... read more
Comparing Effects Between Music Intervention and Aromatherapy on Anxiety of Patients Undergoing Mechanical Ventilation in the ICU
Music and aromatherapy interventions were both effective for ICU patients. The effects of music intervention were greater than that of aromatherapy; both interventions maintained the effects for at least 30 min. The Music... read more
Music as Therapy in the ICU
Music has been shown to reduce respiratory, cardiac and blood pressure frequencies in response to the reduction of stress hormones. In a randomized clinical trial, it was shown to reduce anxiety and sedation doses/intervals... read more
Adjuvant Therapies in Critical Care: Music Therapy
Emerging from the perioperative and oncology fields, music therapy (MT) and patient-directed music interventions (PDMI) have recently garnered interest in the area of critical care. The main goal of these music-based adjuvant... read more
Music and Medicine: Something Important
Every week or 2 when I don’t have a daytime shift, I set up my iPad and play piano for an hour or so. Nothing depressing or too complicated—feel-good music from the 1930s to the latest by John Legend or Coldplay. The... read more
I help bring music to patients in intensive care
After my own experience in ICU, I became convinced of the therapeutic benefits of live music to those who are critically ill. Soothing acoustic music drifted through the clinical, high-tech ward. As the professional musician... read more
An NIH-Kennedy Center Initiative to Explore Music and the Mind
Music is fundamental to the human species in ways that reach beyond entertainment or pastime. In Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks noted that music can "calm us, animate us, comfort us, thrill us, or serve to organize and synchronize... read more
