Musik erleichtert Operationen und beschleunigt die Genesung. Untersuchungen ergaben, dass Patienten, die Musik ausgesetzt waren, niedrigere Dosen Propofol und Fentanyl benötigten. Sie erlebten eine reibungslosere Genesung, niedrigere Cortisol- oder Stresshormonspiegel und eine viel bessere Kontrolle des Blutdrucks während der Operation

Under the harsh lights of an operating theatre in the Indian capital, Delhi, a woman lies motionless as surgeons prepare to remove her gallbladder.

She is under general anaesthesia: unconscious, insensate and rendered completely still by a blend of drugs that induce deep sleep, block memory, blunt pain and temporarily paralyse her muscles.

Yet, amid the hum of monitors and the steady rhythm of the surgical team, a gentle stream of flute music plays through the headphones placed over her ears.

Even as the drugs silence much of her brain, its auditory pathway remains partly active. When she wakes up, she will regain consciousness more quickly and clearly because she required lower doses of anaesthetic drugs such as propofol and opioid painkillers than patients who heard no music.

That, at least, is what a new peer-reviewed study, external from Delhi’s Maulana Azad Medical College and Lok Nayak Hospital suggests. The research, published in the journal Music and Medicine, offers some of the strongest evidence yet that music played during general anaesthesia can modestly but meaningfully reduce drug requirements and improve recovery.

The study focuses on patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy, the standard keyhole operation to remove the gallbladder. The procedure is short – usually under an hour – and demands a particularly swift, „clear-headed“ recovery.

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