Search Tag: music therapy
2025 28 Oct
The intensive care unit environment presents a paradox: while advanced monitoring technology is essential for patient care, the resulting noise pollution may harm the very patients it aims to protect. Two complementary approaches are emerging to address this challenge: therapeutic music interventions and innovative alarm management strategies...Read more
2025 16 Oct
A multi-centre randomised controlled trial of critically ill adults aged 50 years and older admitted to ICUs found that twice-daily slow-tempo music (60–80 beats per minute) did not reduce the duration or severity of delirium or coma, nor did it lessen pain or anxiety compared with a silence-track control. While the intervention did not significantly...Read more
2025 24 Jul
Music therapy’s (MT) integration into the ICU liberation bundle is underexplored. We highlight existing literature, present vignettes illustrating MT in action, and offer recommendations to optimise ICU MT across the lifespan. Introduction The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Liberation Bundle (A-F) is a comprehensive set of evidence-based...Read more
2016 12 Sep
Let's go and switch on the music, say the authors of a review of music therapy for intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Ali Mofredj and colleagues from the Salon de Provence Hospital, France, conclude that although the use of music in ICU lacks scientific foundation, research to date shows that music is more than just entertainment and is a potential...Read more