Heart & lung : the journal of critical care
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Randomized Controlled Trial
The effect of music intervention in stress response to cardiac surgery in a randomized clinical trial.
To evaluate the effect of bed rest with music on the first postoperative day to decrease stress for patients who have undergone heart surgery. ⋯ There is sufficient practical evidence of stress reduction to suggest that a proposed regimen of listening to music while resting in bed after open heart surgery be put into clinical use.