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Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds
Study: https://mmd.iammonline.com/index.php/musmed/article/view/1111/710 https://mmd.iammonline.com/index.php/musmed/article/view/111...
- flave 11mo agoBetter to link the actual study rather than what a know-nothing hack has to say about it: https://mmd.iammonline.com/index.php/musmed/article/view/1111/710 https://mmd.iammonline.com/index.php/musmed/article/view/111... Nothing against the BBC but the most thoughtful journalist has all the scientific knowledge of Tarot Reader’s cat. Anyway, n=56 which is fine I guess but leaves loads of margin for error. Personally, I had a cystoscope and at the time had fancy health insurance so went to a bling London hospital and the surgeon insisted I listened to music - saying exactly what this article said. It lowers cortisol after, makes you less restless during and improves patient reported outcomes. You can look up what a cystoscope is, I elected to do it with a blocker rather than with a general anaesthetic. All I will say is that track Shadowboxin’ by GLA is now completely unlistenable for me!
- comradesmith 11mo agoThat is so incredibly rude of you. Science communication to the general public is valuable. Let’s not forget that the author is a person too, just cause you don’t like it doesn’t mean you’ve got any place to talk down on them.
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- cedilla 11mo agoI don't understand why anyone would think that this kind of snark and condescension is furthering the discussion in any way. A good thing for us all to keep in mind: we don't /have to/ share all our thoughts.
- ssl-3 11mo agoIf we were all following the guidelines here, then this little meta discussion about journalistic interpretation would have never even happened. We'd be discussing the topic, instead of the reporting of that topic. > Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.
- flave 11mo agoI’m sure the individual writer is smart educated and thoughtful, but the system of science journalism (science communication is different but equally flawed) is so bent-out-of-shape as to be effectively worthless. Like, take this exact article as a great example. I’m sure Mr Biswas is genuinely very intelligent and thoughtful and a great journalist but having him write a science article is unfair on him and on readers. Doesn’t even have an undergraduate in a science subject, has never worked as a scientist, and his job is as a national correspondent. Perhaps my wording prioritised humour over fairness - I’ll take the criticism on that. But I don’t think my core point was wrong. How can you “communicate” something you yourself don’t understand? Finally, I want to stress again - it’s not his fault. The system is broken.
- terabytest 11mo agoCan you point out the issues with the article?
- nelox 11mo agoThe core issue is that the BBC report inflates what the study actually shows. The paper is a small, single-centre RCT of one specific surgery (laparoscopic cholecystectomy). Its primary outcome is a modest reduction in propofol and fentanyl dose under a very specific anaesthetic protocol. It does not demonstrate broadly faster recovery or an across-the-board clinical benefit. The authors themselves are cautious and explicitly list limitations. The article strips out that narrow context and generalises. Phrases like “music eases surgery and speeds recovery” and “strongest evidence yet” extrapolate from a sample of 56 people undergoing one procedure to “surgery” in general. The paper doesn’t measure global recovery outcomes, discharge times, or longer-term effects. Satisfaction and pain scores are even reported as comparable between groups (P=0.361 and P=0.07). There’s also mechanistic speculation in the article (implicit memory, psychological responses, “humanising the operating room”) that isn’t in the study’s data. The paper reports dose differences and perioperative physiological measures—not neuropsychological mechanisms.
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- dev_hugepages 11mo agoI kind of understand where they come from: science vulgarization in pop news has been riddled with misinterpretation or lack of depth which can mislead the general public.
- AlecSchueler 11mo agoCan't that be communicated without calling anyone a know-nothing hack?
- flave 11mo agoI’m not gonna delete it as it’s just going to make comments like yours confusing for people, but that was poor phrasing from me. It gave the impression that this specific journalist knows nothing, which is unfair. I was trying to be funny (always risky online) and intended to be speaking humorously about science journalism in generally. In hindsight, my phrasing doesn’t do that, and actually doesn’t communicate what I was saying very well. I stand by my criticism of science journalism in general and my request that the article is just posted. But my wording was very rough, ultimately didn’t make the point I intended and yes might frustrate some people. If someone is extremely upset or hurt by my comment then, I think, at some stage that isn’t my fault and the Internet might not be right for that person.
- squigz 11mo agoOof, this comment was really nice up until the end. Accepting responsibility, expressing regret, etc. > If someone is extremely upset or hurt by my comment then, I think, at some stage that isn’t my fault and the Internet might not be right for that person. But then you're like "If you're upset, whatever, that's on you" - even though nobody's really suggested someone is "extremely" upset or hurt by your comment. Also, you can be funny on the Internet - it has nothing to do with that. The real question is whether you can be funny without degrading people.
- flave 11mo agoI’m just saying that I draw the line somewhere with how upset someone is. Like, if someone read my comment and thought it was unfair then I agree with them. If someone read it and was deeply hurt by it - that’s really in their court not mine.
- ucha 11mo agon=56 doesn't give you much information regarding the margin of error, unless you practice Tarot Reader's cat science. The standard deviation of outcomes and the difference between both outcomes matter just as much. If I flip a coin 56 times and it always falls on head, I can be pretty much certain that it's not a fair coin. I wouldn't need to flip it 1000 times. We are all someone else's "know-nothing hack"...
- laborcontract 11mo agoalso, “this is study is flawed because n=56, here’s my n=1” is hilarious
- mentalgear 11mo agoI also had cystoscope and the nurses suggested music - in addition to the pain killer. So yeah, I would say peaceful music helped me, but not as a replacement to a painkiller.
- blutoot 11mo agoHow did the BBC guy generalize this to all kinds of surgeries? https://mmd.iammonline.com/index.php/musmed/article/view/1111 https://mmd.iammonline.com/index.php/musmed/article/view/111...
- ports543u 11mo agoThe paper mentions it being about total IV anaesthesia with propofol, so it should be generalizable to all surgeries with the same anesthetic conditions.
- jonwinstanley 11mo agoSure, but it melts off your face
- afandian 11mo agoI think those are a pre-surgery photographs.
- arethuza 11mo agoA while back I had to have a long and unpleasant dental procedure - a bone graft so I could get an implant in an area where the bone had been damaged - this took about 4 hours. During this time the dentist played music - mostly various works selected at random by Hans Zimmer. At one point things got a bit intense as apparently I have very hard bones - which meant that quite a bit of force was being used. The music playing during this part of the procedure was "No Time for Caution" - which I thought was hilarious... and this fact kind of took my mind off of things.
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- rurp 11mo agoHah, that's great. My dentist has overhead TVs in all of the rooms. Before a longer appointment I asked if I could bring some over-ear headphones to connect to the TV. Surprisingly nobody had asked that before but they were fine with it. The headphones drowned out the drilling and other noises and helped me zone out into some shows.
- arethuza 11mo agoI'm very short sighted so TVs wouldn't work for me, but I also tend to keep my eyes tight shut in case I see any of the ghastly instruments being used! [During the bone graft I did open my eyes briefly and saw a small for clearly identifiable circular saw].
- tetha 11mo agoOnce you get down to bone, especially larger ones, parts of the surgery turns into masonry and carpentry. Including the tools. Power drills are valid tools in joint replacements or fracture stabilization.
- dakial1 11mo agoHans Zimmer is my soundtrack of choice for focus (Dune 2 is specially good). Found out that a colleague also had the same taste which was surprising for me, now I imagine it is a common use case for his music.
- shevy-java 11mo agoI am always so peaceful when listening to heavy metal ... :D I think the article should focus more on good music elements versus bad music elements. My brain gets annoyed at bad music. Good music can be useful though, in particular for relaxing. I normally dislike jazz-elements, but Sade for instance is acceptable (not pure jazz, but she uses jazzy elements).
- dyauspitr 11mo agoGood music is subjective. Aside from the guitar skills involved in shredding, I think heavy metal is probably the worst genre of music.
- j_mo 11mo agoI'd say good music is objective. Whether it's hard to play, uses complex polyrhythms etc. which most listeners aren't even aware of - and those people tend to think good music is subjective as they can't perceive the quality, only whether they like it or not. There's also some incredibly skilful metal music with no "shredding" whatsoever. I don't particularly like Mozart but I'd be an idiot to say it's not good music. On the other hand most people agree Taylor Swift does not make good music, having released lots of samey 4 chord songs with incredibly simple melodies, but she's one of the most listened artists of all time.
- padjo 11mo agoIf the goal of music is to induce an emotional or intellectual response in a person. Then only the listening person can decide if a response was induced and if that experience impacted them in a positive or negative way. It is the definition of a subjective experience. The complexity of the music or the technical skill of the artist has nothing to do with it being good or bad. Music anywhere on the spectrum from simple ambient noise to symphonic formalism to simple and infectious can be good or bad based on the taste of the listener.
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- thomasfl 11mo agoIf music is so valuable to us humans, then why can't humanity make a site like wikipedia for free music? There is a new generation growing up used to streaming services costing 10 bucks a month.
- suyash 11mo agoMusic is truly a form of medicine!
- postshakeman 11mo agoIf it’s so valuable why not pay people that make it?
- eptcyka 11mo agoLets pay for new music, but how about we have the old stuff be available for free or at cost?
- hiccuphippo 11mo agoMickey Mouse made sure to make it as hard as possible.
- Tokkemon 11mo agoThe public domain exists.
- LeoPanthera 11mo agohttps://musopen.org https://musopen.org https://imslp.org https://imslp.org https://freemusicarchive.org https://freemusicarchive.org https://www.jamendo.com https://www.jamendo.com https://ccmixter.org https://ccmixter.org https://freepd.com https://freepd.com https://incompetech.com https://incompetech.com https://audionautix.com https://audionautix.com
- dualogy 11mo agoFor flow-compatible electronica, let me add specifically: https://netlabels.org/electronic-music/ https://netlabels.org/electronic-music/ https://files.scene.org/browse/music/ https://files.scene.org/browse/music/ https://netlabelarchive.org/ https://netlabelarchive.org/ https://freemusicarchive.org/label/all/ https://freemusicarchive.org/label/all/
- Havoc 11mo ago>Even as the drugs silence much of her brain, its auditory pathway remains partly active. oh that's interesting. From headline I had assumed we're talking post op
- b112 11mo agoSome find music to be distracting, and therefore don't listen to it. This can build a general dislike of music. I presume such souls may wither away and die, while in a coma, as a person "helpfully" plays very annoying sounds 24x7. An alternate, is I do see some very strong preferences for music, with strongly expressed dislikes, even among music lovers. I can imagine the same, someone in a coma giving up and dying, to "get away" from the horror. (Meant as an amusing thought, I doubt any would vacate this world to escape)
- noduerme 11mo agoI'm going in for facial blurring surgery like that gentleman next week. I'm hopeful it will help with my social anxiety.
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- suyash 11mo agoEvery hospital bed should have a comfortable pair of noise cancelling headphones with a variety of music for patient comfort.
- bell-cot 11mo agoMusic might be nice - but I'd prioritize comfy noise cancelling headphones and sleep masks, so the poor patients can get some sleep amid the hospital's beeping gadgets, hard surfaces, and blinkenlights.
- wrp 11mo agoI recently attended someone in the hospital. The constant beeping and alarms round the clock prevented any deep sleep for days, and seemed to hinder recovery.
- macNchz 11mo agoThis is a strange feature of hospitals that seems very much like we should know better, yet it’s pervasive. Hospital-acquired delirium is very common and awful, and is associated with bad outcomes after leaving the hospital—higher risk of death, and ongoing dementia-like problems. We know sleep is so critically important to health, yet everything about most hospitals seems basically incompatible with proper sleep: beeping, lights, middle-of-the-night blood draws, shared rooms, no sense of day or night. Not dissimilar to how how we know that people make terrible decisions when they’re sleep deprived, but continue to have resident doctors work unreasonable hours, this is a status quo bias that harms people.
- DANmode 11mo agoThank you for covering the fact that the facility itself is staffed by people “sleeping” in that environment some percentage of their rest… Insanity.
- analog8374 11mo agoI have seen the same. Literally crazy, right? The hospital reminds me of Walmart. Soulless as a bag of hammers but technically proficient and efficient. Carnivorous. Insectile.
- gniv 11mo agoI will have surgery soon. If I ask the surgeon to allow me to listen to music during the surgery, will they allow it? I know it depends on hospital/surgeon/etc, but I'm wondering how much doctors are willing to deviate from protocol in general.
- have_faith 11mo agoNot the same but I wore ear buds and listened to music while having a tooth pulled, they didn’t mind.
- devilbunny 11mo agoDepends on the surgery and how you want to listen. Ask to have it played in the room? Sure. Want to listen on your own device? We don’t want to be responsible for loss or damage to that device. Want to use earbuds? Same problem if you’re going to be sedated at all, plus there is also the risk of damage to you if there’s metal anywhere. One of the most commonly used instruments in surgery is electrocautery. A large pad is placed on (usually) a leg and is one electrode; the other is the instrument tip that does the burning. In theory, any metal in the current path could be a point for arcing. This is why you are asked to remove piercings (see your piercer for silicone plugs to fill the holes during surgeries). We don’t want to torch you. I’m an anesthesiologist. Some of the risks we are guarding against are more theoretical than practical, but until the 1950’s all useful anesthetic gases were flammable and so protocols were focused on not setting the patients or the operating room on fire, and while we no longer have conductive floors and grounding chains around our waists, we do still worry about setting patients on fire (alcohol is still a common solvent for skin prep solutions). And we don’t want to lose or damage your stuff.
- alentred 11mo agoI wonder what kind/style of music was used in the study. A further study might even try comparing different music styles.
- Razengan 11mo agoMan, all these "study finds" about things that are intuitively obvious to most humans, but others need "studies" to believe.
- squigz 11mo agoThat isn't the point of studies finding results that seem "intuitive" The point is that designing laws, regulations, guidelines, safety standards, etc, based on "intuition" is not very rational.
- Razengan 11mo agoI recall seeing some fairly befuddling ones, like "Study finds that a green environment with plants & flowers reduces depression" etc., how do you even quantify this into numbers? I tell you I feel good if there's more greenery in the city, you want proof to see "how" good before you build more parks?
- squigz 11mo ago> I recall seeing some fairly befuddling ones, like "Study finds that being in a green environment with plants & flowers reduces depression" etc., how do you even quantify this into numbers? "Effects of things on depression" doesn't seem like such a crazy thing to need to quantify. > I tell you I feel good if there's more greenery in the city, you want proof to see "how" good before you build more parks? A very disingenuous comparison, I think. There's a pretty big difference between that and "What is the effect of certain environmental stimuli during surgery" I'd really rather not have surgeons explore this question on their own. I don't disagree that we don't need nearly as much data on some things as others - but I do still want data supporting reasons to spend millions of public dollars.
- harry8 11mo agoWell even if you are sure about your intuition in the knowledge that this confidence by humans has led to huge problems and tragedies in the past, you still want to have a good estimate of the effect size. How much resource to allocate to this treatment vs other treatments having a positive effect. Somewhere there ends up being a trade off that I will caricature as "Do we want another hospital OR another park?" (All the above is idealised, the biggest win that moves the efficient frontier outwards is effectively fighting corruption and being vigilant defending the gains made. This seems to be universal across countries and cultures).
- heelix 11mo agoWhen covid hit, my wife showed stroke symptoms - half her face stopped working (bell's palsy). She had an MRI as part of the diagnostic. As part of it, the operator asked her if she wanted to have some music. Yes please, some soft 80's love songs. "Welcome to the jungle, we got fun and games..." It was not the calming music she was expecting. She still jokes about it.
- kunley 11mo agoThe crucial issue is: what kind of music. A lot of what's nowadays called music is actually rather a "sounds with some beat" category.
- arcanemachiner 11mo agoDamn kids and their hibbity hoppity...
- lleu 11mo agoDifferent frequencies, different arrangement of tones and melodies, production and tonal qualities of the recording, and all manner of composition variations have different effects. It might be crass way to say it, but it's a real worthwhile line of inquiry. Don't think you can smack any beat on someone's head and it will cure cancer. It's not all equal. Broad strokes here... if you look at another vibrational medium for parallels: the colour red can indicate something about the chemical contents of a material, and thus the effects it may have. A soft black carrot may not have the same beneficial qualities as a crisp red, purple, or white carrot...
- BriggyDwiggs42 11mo agoWhat I’m hearing is “it’s different music.” Why does this justify a reduction to “sounds with a beat”?
- lleu 11mo agoIn this case, I see multiple parties resorting to pedantry over a legitimate point of discussion, reducing to mud slinging over semantics. The point stands.
- BriggyDwiggs42 11mo agoWhat’s the point that stands? How do you justify the initial framing of “sounds over a beat”
- npteljes 11mo agoIn case anyone else is also interested in the "what kind of music", this is straight from the study: >>The patients were asked to choose their preferred music from two prerecorded instrumental musical pieces instituted as the music therapy. We used non lyrical, soft, slow tempo, relaxing instrumental musical pieces of either flute [click here for audio]or piano [click here for audio]as the choices presented to the patient.The musical pieces were selected based on their slow and meditative tempo (60-100 beats per minute), and only non -lyrical instrumental piano or flute based versions were chosen.The flute version which was preferred by most patients was a combination of Raga Yaman and Raga Kirwani. Raga Yaman is bright and uplifting and Raga Kir wani is known for its soothing and calming effects. Combining these two Hindustani classical ragas provides musically uplifting qualities that could be helpful in reducing the stress associated with surgical procedures and control the hemodynamic responses to surgery. Noise cancelling headphoneswere used to play the instrumental pieces at 60db. The musical piece was played for the entire duration of the surgery on loop using blue tooth connectivity of the headphones with a mobile phone.<<
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- fnord77 11mo agowhy did op take "indian study" out of the title?
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- kderbyma 11mo agoThis is not surprising to me. It’s clearly directly wired into our emotions and nervous system. The nervous system is the key part which is being healed and so stimulation will likely increase the speed of reconnections