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Title	Music therapy intervention for postoperative pain.
Subject	Complementary Therapies; Music therapy.
Description	Patients who experience uncontrolled postoperative pain can have lasting effects from the experience. Negative psychological and physiological effects can be induced in postoperative patients with pain. Pain medications given postoperatively can induce untoward side effects, such as nausea, vomiting, and in some cases respiratory depression. These effects can impact the present and future surgical experiences for all patients. Many patients feel a lack of control postoperatively, which increases their anxiety and pain perceptions. Pain medications that are commonly used within the postoperative phase of surgery can be effective, but introducing an alternative method, such as the use of music may decrease the pain perceptions and amount of pain medications administered to each recovering patient. The following discussion will present a problem that exists within some post anesthesia care units. The lack of music within these settings may be responsible for increasing the amount of acute pain perceived by postoperative patients. Along with the problem, a solution that incorporates music within the post anesthesia care units to decrease the amount of pain and pain medications administered will be achieved. The method to implement music to decrease the patients’ pain perceptions within the recovery setting will be presented and the method to evaluate the outcomes, as well as how the results will be disseminated will be discussed. Music has been used throughout history to heal and alleviate illness or distress within patients. Research has proven that the use of music throughout the postoperative phase of surgery can provide therapeutic effects by lessening pain sensations and distress within the postoperative patient. Music is an inexpensive, risk-free intervention that nurses can use to decrease the perception of pain and lessen medication side effects within the postoperative patient.
Creator	Fehringer, Staci.
Publisher	Grand Canyon University
Date	2014
Type	text
Format	PDF
Identifier	EBN_2014_Fehringer_S_698
Source	2014_Fehringer_S_698.pdf
Language	eng