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2010-12-09

Music best medicine - help ventilator patients

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A study involving more than 200 intensive care patients needing assisted breathing by ventilators by experts at Cochrane Library showed that music could be better than drugs to calm patients during forced ventilation.

Doctors choice of tempo by doctors in most trials was classical musicshop for classical music at Amazon for easy listening.

However, lead researcher Joke Bradt of Drexel University in Philadelphia, US recommend medical personnel providing music to patients to consult with a music therapist to understand what type of music may be best for a particular patient.

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