Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Alterations through Music in Patients Undergoing Cataract Surgery in Greece
Author(s) -
Kyriakoula Merakou,
Georgia Varouxi,
Anastasia Barbouni,
Eleni Antoniadou,
Georgios Karageorgos,
Dimitrios Theodoridis,
Aristea Koutsouri,
Jenny Kourea-Kremastinou
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
ophthalmology and eye diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1179-1721
DOI - 10.4137/oed.s20960
Subject(s) - blood pressure , medicine , meditation , heart rate , diastole , coping (psychology) , cardiology , cataract surgery , anesthesia , physical therapy , surgery , philosophy , theology , psychiatry
Music has been proposed as a safe, inexpensive, nonpharmacological antistress intervention. The purpose of this study was to determine whether patients undergoing cataract surgery while listening to meditation music experience lower levels of blood pressure and heart rate.
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