Surgery Playlist

[Miercat]

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Hey guys this kind of a fun thread, but I'm doing a research project on the effect of music during surgery, and I was wondering what songs are in your surgery playlist, and what kind of surgeon are you (general, CT etc...)

Thanks for your help,

Miercat

 

[Boogie Man]

If you're playing anything other than Stevie Ray Vaughan, you're wasting your time.

 

[SLUser11]

Hey guys this kind of a fun thread, but I'm doing a research project on the effect of music during surgery, and I was wondering what songs are in your surgery playlist, and what kind of surgeon are you (general, CT etc...)

Thanks for your help,

Miercat

Tubthumping on repeat. For the long cases, the song may play 30 or 40 times, but I'll be darned if it doesn't just keep getting better. Chumbawamba rocks.....

 

[biophysicianai]

Tubthumping on repeat. For the long cases, the song may play 30 or 40 times, but I'll be darned if it doesn't just keep getting better. Chumbawamba rocks.....

 

[Dr.LeoSpaceman]

Not sure what your angle is going to be, but there was something on this in this month's JACS.

J Am Coll Surg. 2013 May;216(5):933-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2012.12.048. Epub 2013 Mar 18.

Effect of noise on auditory processing in the operating room.
Way TJ, Long A, Weihing J, Ritchie R, Jones R, Bush M, Shinn JB.
Source
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. Electronic address: [email protected].
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Effective communication is a critical component of patient care in the operative room (OR). However, the presence of loud equipment, a large number of staff members, and music can contribute to high levels of background noise. In a setting in which crucial tasks are performed continuously, distractions and barriers to communication can result in harm to both patients and OR personnel. The purpose of this investigation was to simulate OR listening conditions and evaluate the effect of operating noise on auditory function.

STUDY DESIGN:
This is a prospective investigation of 15 subjects ranging from 1 to 30 years of operative experience. All surgeons had normal peripheral hearing sensitivity. The surgeons' ability to understand and repeat words were tested using the Speech in Noise Test-Revised in 4 different conditions chosen to simulate typical OR environments. These included quiet, filtered noise through a mask and background noise both with and without music. They were tested in both a tasked and in an untasked situation.

RESULTS:
It was found that the impact of noise is considerably greater when the participant is tasked. Surgeons demonstrated substantially poorer auditory performance in music than in quiet or OR noise. Performance in both conditions was poorer when the sentences were low in predictability.

CONCLUSIONS:
Operating room noise can cause a decrease in auditory processing function, particularly in the presence of music. This becomes even more difficult when the communication involves conversations that carry critical information that is unpredictable. To avoid possible miscommunication in the OR, attempts should be made to reduce ambient noise levels.

 

[cpants]

Hope JCAHO doesn't catch wind of this.

 

[45408]

CONCLUSIONS:
Operating room noise can cause a decrease in auditory processing function, particularly in the presence of music. This becomes even more difficult when the communication involves conversations that carry critical information that is unpredictable. To avoid possible miscommunication in the OR, attempts should be made to reduce ambient noise levels.

Or turn up the tunes and stop talking so damn much. My favorite move is just to put out my hand and take whatever the tech gives me. They're usually right, and nobody has to talk.


Okay, I don't usually do that, but it does usually work. The CT surgeons here do that a lot. If it's the wrong instrument, one guy will just put it down and put his hand back out To be fair, it's usually the exact same sequence 900 times in a row, for every CABG.

 

[KLPM]

Our head of plastic surgery always plays Lady Gaga. He really really loves Lady Gaga. Apparently it was because his daughter listened to her but now he is more into her music than she is.

 

[Miercat]

Thanks for all your replies guys, it's much appreciated.

 

[jacobus]

Hey guys this kind of a fun thread, but I'm doing a research project on the effect of music during surgery, and I was wondering what songs are in your surgery playlist, and what kind of surgeon are you (general, CT etc...)

Thanks for your help,

Miercat

Greenday, Sum 41 etc

 

[rueby25]

Our head of plastic surgery always plays Lady Gaga. He really really loves Lady Gaga. Apparently it was because his daughter listened to her but now he is more into her music than she is.

Are you at a school in Michigan by chance? There's a well-known plastics guy I worked with who rocked out to Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, and Katy Perry. Pretty entertaining.

 

[KLPM]

Are you at a school in Michigan by chance? There's a well-known plastics guy I worked with who rocked out to Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, and Katy Perry. Pretty entertaining.

Try Australia. 😛

There must be something about Lady Gaga's look that draws plastic surgeons.

I have decided if I ever end up in surgery I am going to have the same song with increasing WTF-ness in my playlist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJA69C6SlRk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU_dBDccruI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edwsf-8F3sI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmwRQqJsegw

 

[Winged Scapula]

I listen to a wide variety of music:

standards (Ella FItzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughn) for awake patients; 80s alternative/rock, 90s grunge and "music of today" (Gaga, etc.). About the only thing I don't routinely listen to would be classical and country (much to the disdain of my scrub nurse who is a big CMT fan).

If you put my IPod on shuffle its sort of a fun mix: you'll hear Katy Perry, followed by NWA and Dr. Dre, followed by SESAP lectures.

 

[MediCane2006]

My OR pandora choice is usually a toss-up between Mumford and Red Hot Chili Peppers....both have a pretty good variety and seem to be well likedbytherestof the OR crew.

Other choices are Foster the People, country (down here in the South it's mandatory)....and for decubs, Metallica. Always.

 

[45408]

this is what I'd like to be listening to....

[YOUTUBE]K003TNG40P8[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Winged Scapula]

this is what I'd like to be listening to....

[YOUTUBE]K003TNG40P8[/YOUTUBE]

The music is fine but boy...his voice gives me the creeps.

 

[loh]

The Black Keys on Pandora is where it's at

 

[45408]

saw these guys in concert in March. Third time seeing them live. The first time I saw them, I drove to Chicago, picked my buddy up from the airport as he was returning from his honeymoon and then drove into the city to see them. His wife had to drive home from their honeymoon alone

[youtube]6Jg7b3SFEuk[/youtube]

 

[Black Surgeon]

One of my attendings was a jazz buff, Charlie Parker AKA "the bird", Coleman Hawkins "bean", John Coltrane "trane", thelonious monk "mad monk", Duke Ellington "duke", Lester young "the pres", you name it, he listens to it. He played bean and only bean during tougher/longer cases, still haven't figured out why though. Most of the staff hates it, but I'm a jazz buff myself, I loved it.

 

[KLPM]

One of my attendings was a jazz buff, Charlie Parker AKA "the bird", Coleman Hawkins "bean", John Coltrane "trane", thelonious monk "mad monk", Duke Ellington "duke", Lester young "the pres", you name it, he listens to it. He played bean and only bean during tougher/longer cases, still haven't figured out why though. Most of the staff hates it, but I'm a jazz buff myself, I loved it.

That sounds ....... really really sweet.

 

[poorracerkid]

My favorite was one of the Plastic's attendings in Austin who listened to Rage Against The Machine exclusively. I always enjoyed his cases if solely for the soundtrack!!

 

[SLUser11]

My favorite was one of the Plastic's attendings in Austin who listened to Rage Against The Machine exclusively. I always enjoyed his cases if solely for the soundtrack!!

That's cute, but you can't operate angry all the time....

 

[KLPM]

That's cute, but you can't operate angry all the time....

Our vascular attendings would like to disagree (or maybe throw a dirty sponge at you).

 

[Skialta]

If it is Friday then it is 80s alternative Friday and occasionally Eurodisco Friday, otherwise Phoenix on Pandora.