On 13 April 2022, V.X. Vu will defend his PhD dissertation, entitled: ‘Music and Surgery: The Effect of Perioperative Music on Patient Outcome and Surgical Performance’.
- Promotor
- Promotor
- Co-promotor
- Co-promotor
- Date
- Wednesday 13 Apr 2022, 15:30 - 17:00
- Type
- PhD defence
- Space
- Professor Andries Querido room
- Building
- Education Center
- Location
- Erasmus MC
Dissertation in short:
This thesis aims to evaluate the effect of perioperative music on the patient and the surgeon, using evidence-based medicine principles. The first part of this thesis focuses on the effect of perioperative music on patient outcome and recovery.
Chapter 2 is a systematic review and meta-analysis describing the effect of perioperative music on the physiological stress response to surgery.
Chapter 3 consists of a systematic review and meta-analysis of 55 randomized controlled trials on the effects of perioperative music on intraoperative sedative and postoperative opioid medication requirement by adult surgical patients, as well as its effect on length of stay.
Chapter 4 evaluates the effect of intraoperative auditory stimuli during general anaesthesia in surgical patients through a systematic review and meta-analysis of 53 randomized controlled trials in which patients, the surgical and operation room staff, as well as outcome assessors, are all blinded.
Chapter 5 is a randomized, placebo-controlled, multicentre double-blinded trial assessing whether intraoperative music during general anaesthesia can benefit postoperative recovery of esophageal and stomach cancer surgery patients.
Chapter 6 is a study protocol of a multicentre randomized controlled clinical trial evaluating the effect of perioperative music on postoperative delirium, recovery and self-sufficiency in elderly hip fracture surgery patients.
Chapter 7 contains a pilot study investigating implementation of perioperative music in day care surgery.
The second part of this thesis examines the effect of perioperative music on the surgeon and surgical performance.
Chapter 8 is a systematic literature review containing studies that have investigated the effects of music on surgical task performance.
Chapters 9 and 10 are two randomized crossover trials evaluating the effect of participant-selected music on mental workload and laparoscopic task performance in a simulated setting.
Chapter 11 consists of a systematic literature review on the effect of noise on both patient and surgeon. Also, the attitudes towards noise and music in the operation room are encompassed in this chapter.
- More information
The public defence will begin exactly at 15.30 hrs. The doors will be closed once the public defence starts, latecomers can access the hall via the fourth floor. Due to the solemn nature of the ceremony, we recommend that you do not take children under the age of 6 to the first part of the ceremony.
A live stream link has been provided to the candidate.
