Two surgeons preparing for surgery

When we first started creating preloaded headphones and curating our soothing, therapeutic playlists, our focus was exclusively on the perioperative period, pre-surgery, during surgery, and after surgery. We knew that it would probably also help with dental work, but the primary target was anxious surgery patients.

I remember vividly the first time I stood up at a business meeting to talk about my idea for about 2 minutes. As soon as I finished, the room started buzzing with people telling me all of the uses that immediately came to mind for them, including dentistry, detached retinas, and childbirth!

That was in 2009. Today, not only are we helping patients through chemotherapy, kidney dialysis, ketamine infusions and simple blood draws. Basically, anything that increases a patients anxiety before a procedure.

Why do you get so anxious before these procedures? Let me count the ways:

• Fear of pain
• Fear of medical mistakes
• Fear that procedure won’t help
• Fear of pain
• Fear of making it worse
• Fear of embarassing self
• Fear of pain

So you see that anticipated pain is the biggest reason usually. In the case of surgery, people are afraid of going under general anesthesia for fear that they will never wake up!

Our therapeutic playlists work by using curated music that engages rhythmic entrainment. When the process of rhythmic entrainment kicks in, a person’s muscle begin to relax, the heart rate slows and stabilizes and the breathing slows and becomes deeper and more rhythmic.

The patient needs to have their own music, coming through preloaded headphones or earbuds and utilizing either the music already on their headphones or MP3 player or streaming with bluetooth from our app.

Interested in getting this system going in your hospital? Just go to this link and fill out the form and we’ll set up an appointment right away!

From a recent customer:

“Dr. Alice Cash has created a simple but effective device allowing anyone having surgery to have a better preoperative experience -typically experiencing less pre-operative anxiety, the need for less anesthesia, and subsequently less post-op pain and anxiety. Both individuals and medical facilities are now utilizing her unique surgical serenity pre-loaded mp3 headphones. As a surgery nurse, I can definitely recommend Dr. Cash and her products.”