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01-11-2018 | What's New in Intensive Care
Adjuvant therapies in critical care: music therapy
Authors:
Jonathan Messika, Pierre Kalfon, Jean-Damien Ricard
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 11/2018
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Excerpt
Emerging from the perioperative [
1] and oncology [
2] fields, music therapy (MT) and patient-directed music interventions (PDMI) have recently garnered interest in the area of critical care. The main goal of these music-based adjuvant therapies is to reduce anxiety and pain in patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) [
1,
2]. In the present short commentary, we will review the background, modalities and evidence for MT in critically ill patients, and its future use in the ICU. …