Anxious surgical patients often request to listen their favorite music in the perioperative suite, especially before anesthesia induction and during transport. According to a new study written by Michael Egbujionuma, RN, APRN, of Kaiser Permanente, the fulfillment of these requests can go beyond simple in-the-moment “patient comfort” to “represent an important component of a wider movement toward human-centered perioperative care,” particularly in terms of providing “precision anesthesia.”
In his narrative review, published by Cureus, Mr. Egbujionuma “summarizes contemporary evidence on perioperative music listening interventions and proposes a framework for integrating individualized sensory preferences into anesthesia practice.”
He presents a “practical perioperative workflow, comparison with prior reviews, and a research agenda focused on personalization and digital perioperative profiling,” and notes that personalized perioperative music listening is a “low-cost, scalable, evidence-supported intervention that may help anesthesia evolve toward a more humane, patient-centered surgical experience.”
