Using music instead of medication to calm agitated patients

Mark Wiener, MD (left), and Mark Wiener, MD (left), and Trevor
Scudamore, MD Trevor Scudamore, MD (photo by Jim Howe) (photo by
Jim Howe) Music has the ability to influence the mood of listeners,
but is it powerful enough to calm someone who is agitated? Some
doctors in the psychiatry residency program at Upstate conducted a
project that allowed patients in the psychiatric unit to listen to
music as an alternative to medications when they became agitated.
Trevor Scudamore, MD, and Mark Wiener, MD, explain that fewer
medications were used when music was available, and patients who
opted for music stayed in the hospital for fewer days. Music has
the ability to influence the mood of listeners, but is it powerful
enough to calm someone who is agitated? Some doctors in the
psychiatry residency program at Upstate conducted a project that
allowed patients in the psychiatric unit to listen to music as an
alternative to medications when they became agitated. Trevor
Scudamore, MD, and Mark Wiener, MD, explain that fewer medications
were used when music was available, and patients who opted for
music stayed in the hospital for fewer days. Click here Click here
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