Soothing sounds may lower anesthesia needs in chest surgery
NCT ID NCT07322562
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study looked at whether playing music through headphones during chest surgery could reduce the amount of anesthesia needed and help keep heart rate and blood pressure steady. Researchers studied 159 adults having thoracic surgery. Music was played from the start of surgery until the patient woke up. The goal was to see if music therapy could make surgery safer and more comfortable.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- music therapy
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could point toward a simple, drug-free way to reduce anesthesia use and keep heart rate and blood pressure more stable during chest surgery.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, completed observational study, not a large randomized trial. The results may not apply to all patients or surgery types, and music therapy might not work for everyone.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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159 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Oct 2025
- Finished
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Dec 2025
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
All patients who will undergo thoracic surgery under general anesthesia and meet the criteria of being over 18 years of age
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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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: * Age 18 and over, * American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) classification I-III, * No hearing acuity, * Volunteer to participate in the study, * Cooperative and oriented, * No history of psychiatric illness and/or psychiatric medication use, Exclusion Criteria: * Patients who were under 18 years, * ASA classification \>III, * had hearing loss, * had a psychiatric diagnosis and/or were taking antipsychotic/antidepressant/mood stabilizer medications, * were uncooperative (dementia, mental retardation, etc.), * Major complications during the intraoperative or postoperative period, (respiratory failure, hemodynamic instability, hypoxia, serious arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, etc.) * Emergency surgery, * had a history of alcohol or drug abuse, * did not speak Turkish, * did not consent to participate in the study.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Cukurova University Faculty of Medicine Anesthesiology Department
Adana, Adana, 01380, Turkey (Türkiye)
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