Music Increases Satisfaction in Elderly Outpatients Undergoing Cataract Surgery

The effect of music with and without binaural beat audio on operative anxiety in patients undergoing cataract surgery: a randomized controlled trial

“…[1][2][3][4] Bellan et al 5 reported a large-scale study of 144 patients undergoing cataract surgery and found that listening to music before surgery was associated with decreased anxiety. Cruise et al 6 found similar results in a cohort of 121 patients undergoing cataract surgery under retrobulbar block who were more satisfied with their experience if they listened to relaxing music rather than operating room noise alone during the surgical procedure.…”

Blocking noise but not music lowers bispectral index scores during sedation in noisy operating rooms

“…The possibility that hearing acuity skewed the data is very low because we excluded from the study those patients with poor auditory function on a preoperative hearing test, and study patients adjusted the volume of music to their most comfortable level. In two prospective studies of elderly outpatients undergoing cataract surgery, music failed to reduce the level of anxiety during surgery, even though it increased overall patient satisfaction [15,16]. Therefore, it is possible that music on its own cannot affect sedative scores of elderly patients.…”

Psychological preparation for patients undergoing day surgery

“…Although the experimental group only listened to the music for 15 -30 minutes, subjective data collection revealed a significant reduction in anxiety. Cruise et al (1997) studied 121 patients undergoing sedation for eye surgery and assigned patients to one of four conditions i.e. audiotape of relaxing suggestions, normal quiet environmental noise, audiotape of previous operating room noise (during the same surgical procedure) or relaxing music.…”