Music may reduce opioid use after heart surgery
NCT ID NCT05098561
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looked at whether listening to music can help heart surgery patients need less strong pain medicine. 54 adults who had heart surgery through a cut in the chest took part. The goal was to see if music therapy could lower the amount of opioid painkillers they used.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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54 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Oct 2018
- Finished
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Sep 2024
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients undergoing cardiac surgery via median sternotomy Exclusion Criteria: * Emergency cases. * Patients with hearing impairment. * Patients with dementia or other mental status changes. * Patients who are clinically unstable postoperatively. * Patients who develop postoperative complications. * Patients who are non-English speaking.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Steward St. Elizabeth medical Center
Brighton, Massachusetts, 02135, United States
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