Effect of therapeutic suggestions during general anaesthesia on postoperative pain and opioid use: multicentre randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the effect of therapeutic suggestions played to patients through earphones during surgery on postoperative pain and opioid use.

Design

Blinded randomised controlled study.

Setting

Five tertiary care hospitals in Germany.

Participants

385 of 400 patients consecutively recruited from January to December 2018 who were to undergo surgery for 1-3 hours under general anaesthesia. In the per protocol analysis 191 patients were included in the intervention group and 194 patients in the control group.

Intervention

The intervention comprised an audiotape of background music and positive suggestions based on hypnotherapeutic principles, which was played repeatedly for 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of silence to patients through earphone

SUBMITTER: Nowak H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7726311 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature