April 24, 2017.
Surgeons would perform better by listening to certain music and among them, the Star Wars soundtrack seems particularly inspiring!
Music inspires surgeons to perform better
In the operating room, music would have many benefits, especially on the surgical performance of doctors. This is in any case what suggests a study carried out by Australian researchers who, in the journal Neurology, claim that certain types of music would improve the results of surgeons who perform colonoscopies.
To support their theory, these researchers observed 103 of these interventions designed to prevent colorectal cancer. During these operations, the surgeons were invited to intervene by listening to two different styles of music: the soundtrack of the Star Wars saga on the one hand and pop music on the other hand.. The authors of this study did not choose this first theme by chance, the Star Wars soundtrack was indeed considered to inspire fame and success.
Surgeons detect more polyps, adenomas with Star Wars
Of the 103 operations performed by endoscopy, 58 were performed against the background of this music, while the remaining 45 were conducted against the background of pop music. At the end of these interventions, the authors of the study compared the performance of surgeons and the result was in line with the Star Wars trilogy!
The effectiveness of a colonoscopy was more remarkable when it was performed to this music and surgeons notably detected more polyps and adenomas. Star Wars can thus boast of having participated in an adenoma detection rate of 60%, compared to 35% for pop music. The same goes for polyps, with 48% detection with the saga’s soundtrack against 35% with pop music.
Sybille Latour
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