Having Surgery?: Using Music to Reduce Anxiety and Pain Perception - Couverture souple

Cash PhD, Alice Hudnall

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1734282304 ISBN 13 : 9781734282306

Synopsis

If you have ever been told that you need surgery and were immediately consumed with fear and dread, this is the book for you. Dr Cash covers every possible scenario, giving reasons why music should be considered as a method of calming and soothing the patient before surgery, tapping into rhythmic entrainment during surgery, and decreasing pain perception after surgery. Dr Cash is a clinical musicologist and licensed clinical social worker who has research the subject and worked with surgery patients for over 25 years.The book provides videos of actual patients, who have used her method, telling their stories of less anxiety, less medication, shorter procedures and hospitalizations, and happier patient satisfaction. The pre-loaded headphones are in use around the world. And now Dr Cash has created 5 mobile apps so that patients can simply download this well-researched and powerful music to engage rhythmic entrainment.The book includes stories of heart bypass surgery, pacemaker implantation, hip replacement, knee replacement, shoulder replacement, C-section, cataract surgery, and dental procedures. There is even a story of a patient with an abdominal aeortic aneurysm whose procedure turned out better than he every expected.Dr Cash looks into the history of music during surgery and music as medicine.The book is divided into three sections with the first section being directed to the anxious patient, the second section focuses on clinical research studies that have done on music with surgery and a detailed explanation of rhythmic entrainment and how it works during surgery. The third section focuses on how hospitals, ASCs and dental facilities can benefit from offering this to their patients and greatly improve patient satisfaction.This book procides much-needed information for the patient, the doctor, and for hospital administrators and an intervention that a few have known about but until personal listening devices were available through Bluetooth technology, were not available to everyone. This book will make you want to talk to your physician or dentist immediately about using the right music, during your next anxiety-provoking procedure.

Détails de l'édition

• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1734282304
• ISBN 13: 9781734282306
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 134
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