Music in the OR

June 10, 2006

It plays a significant role during surgery:

Music can become a subtle bone of contention among the members of the surgical team or a practical aid. Loud rock ‘n’ roll is good for routine operations, they say, Mozart for trickier ones. There is even a genre called “closing music”: raucous sounds to suture by.



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{ 5 comments }

1 ipanema June 10, 2006 at 6:34 pm

It’s nice to read the effect of music to doctors while in the OR. I remember having background music when I gave birth to my eldest. I could hear happy people around me that day.

As for preference according to NYTimes, Abba, Verdi, Coldplay, etc. is fine with me just don’t play heavy metal. :)

2 Anonymous June 10, 2006 at 8:58 pm

Maybe “Love in an elevator” would have been appropriate for you..that’s where your child was conceived, right?

3 ipanema June 10, 2006 at 11:08 pm

A stalker huh? You’re following my posts.

Vous personne de cerveau de pois ! Disparaissent la baise vous-même !

It’s sweet when you say it in French. I am very generous with adjectives, more so with my expletives but I dont deal with cowards hiding in their mother’s skirts.

4 alireza June 10, 2006 at 11:43 pm

cery intersting. I will translate this article for my readers.

5 Anonymous June 15, 2006 at 11:07 am

Interesting, what do they use for challenging cases?

rheumatoid arthritis

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