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Surgeons more efficient when listening to preferred music: Study
There’s no doubt that music can affect our mood. Whether it makes us happy, or provokes a memory, music has a way of taking over. New research suggests that when surgeons listen to their preferred style of music their stitches are completed better and faster.
The study comes from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Previous research has shown that music in the operating room lowered stress in surgeons, but the effect of music on surgical precision had yet to be examined.
For the study, 15 plastic surgeon residents were asked to close incisions with layered stitches on pigs’ feet taken from a local market. The residents were not informed of the study, but were just told to do their best and notify a researcher when complete. During the first practice there was no use of music. On the second day the residents were asked to perform the same task with music either on or off.
Read More: http://www.belmarrahealth.com/surgeons-more-efficient-when-listening-to-preferred-music/
