Having surgery is a frightening and stressful situation. Even before that, NEEDING surgery is a frightening and stressful situation.
Oftentimes people go to a doctor appointment thinking that they have just a few aches and pains, but nothing serious. After testing and examination, the doctor informs them that they will need surgery to correct a condition that will get worse or perhaps to replace a joint that will continue to deteriorate.
Sometimes, a routine medical test, like a colonoscopy or endoscopy can cause tremendous anxiety and stress. In these situations, doctors often prescribe benzodiazepines such as Valium, Xanax of Ativan. These modern drugs work very effectively, but like everything, there’s also a downside.
Benzodiazepines are intended for short-term use, but they work so effectively in terms of reducing anxiety and stress, that sometimes people want to keep taking them for much longer than intended. With severe overuse, or in combination with other drugs, like opioids, damage to the brain, liver, and other organs, can occur.
Now, a new meta-analysis published on the National Institutes of Health website documents that the right therapeutic music can be as powerful as benzodiazepines! This is great news.
A significant percentage of patients had their perioperative anxiety level reduced (as measured by the Visual Analog Scale for Anxiety) with an effectiveness similar to benzodiazepines.
Surgical Serenity Solutions provides an easy solution for music medicine in the perioperative period
Surgical Serenity Solutions has been providing preloaded headphones and MP3 players for hospitals and surgery centers since 2009. Our therapeutic playlists have been curated and sequenced by a clinical musicologist and in 2018 we introduced our mobile app on both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.
Both hospitals and individual patients can purchase the preloaded headphones or the App to take into their procedures.
And now, dentists, opthalmologists, psychiatrists and all kinds of other specialists are using our devices in their clinics and recommending the app to the patients to listen to at home, before and after their procedures.
Are YOU ready to step into the future with Surgical Serenity Solutions?
Our Hospital Starter Kit is a popular tool for hospitals and Ambulatory Surgery Centers to start their own Music with Surgery programs and give your patients the powerful gift of therapeutic music for their procedures.
Either the preloaded headphones or the preloaded MP3 players will be a huge asset for the patient filled with anxiety and perhaps, previous negative experience with anesthesia.
In addition, your patient satisfaction score will soar and your marketing department will have access to all of our articles, research and blog post for their daily blasts! Definitely a win-win.
Let me know if you have any questions or how we can help you get started!
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