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Researchers test a surgeon’s performance in a basic procedure with and without music.
The results were based on the speed of their cuts and sutures, as well as their concentration.
Rock proved to be the leading tune in the operating rooms, standing out effectively with AC/DC songs.
With the premise that they would generate a more relaxed environment for patients and doctors, at the beginning of the 20th century, when phonographs gained popularity, hospitals began to listen to melodies during small interventions and, despite the doubts that this generated about their concentration and performance , Little by little, the multiple sensory benefits that music brought to medicine were verified. Today, a recent study went further and revealed that the surgeon who rocks with AC/DC manages to improve his precision in the operating room.
According to a survey conducted by Spotify and Figure 1, 90 percent of surgeons listen to all kinds of music and demystify the idea that operating rooms have a sinister atmosphere; 49 percent listen to rock; 43 percent softer shades like classic; 48 percent pop, 24 percent jazz; and 21 percent the African American R&B genre.
The Rolling Stones, The Doors or Led Zeppelin are some of the bands most listened to by doctors and anesthesiologists in operating rooms to prevent anxiety and stress.
Study: AC/DC improves a surgeon’s skills
‘Highway to Hell’, ‘Back in Black’ and other AC/DC hits they would have gone from being rock classics to useful tools to improve the skills of medical surgeons.
According to a study carried out by researchers at the “Technische Universität Dresden” (Polytechnic University of Dresden, in Germany), the effect that this band has within the operating rooms is greater than what was measured with different genres and volume levels during their interventions.
Specialists Cui Yang, Franziska Möttig, Jürgen Weitz, Christoph Reissfelder and Soeren Torge Mees studied the different types of rock that are heard in hospitals and how they influence the performance of doctors during a procedure called laparoscopy, which is a minimally invasive surgery. which involves inserting a thin tube into the patient’s abdomen, through a small incision.
The volunteer doctors for the study performed this surgery in three conditions: in music, with music at medium volume and with high volume. In the first stage they played soft rock, with The Beatles, and hard rock, by AC/DC.
In all three scenarios they found that surgeons’ speed and accuracy changed, for example, with soft rock at medium volume, participants were faster in pin transfer and more accurate in suturing with intracorporeal knot, compared to the same. procedure without music; however, this effect was lost if the melody was played at a high volume.
“Our data reveals that the effect of music on laparoscopic performance could depend on the combination of musical genre and amplitude”indicates the article of the study.
In contrast, the AC/DC songs at medium volume yielded the best results of the entire practice. At medium volume the participants achieved much faster precision cuts, compared to the other two scenarios.
“A generally well-accepted music genre at the right volume could improve the performance of novice surgeons during laparoscopic surgeries.”, add the specialists.
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