Abstract
Background
Music is played in the operating room and commonly chosen by the surgeon or circulating
nurse. The aim of this study is to measure the effect of different genres of music
on resident performance in laparoscopic surgery.
Methods
This is a prospective observational study including residents from a university-affiliated
general surgery program who performed standardized laparoscopic skills while listening
to music.
Results
64% of residents ranked pop music as their favorite genre followed by classic rock,
country, and classical at 17%, 11% and 8% respectively. For peg transfer and intracorporeal
knot tying, the task completion time was fastest with pop music (57.4 s p < 0.49,
109.6 s p < 0.47) and slowest with classical (61.4 s p < 0.49, 148.1 s p < 0.47).
Conclusions
Pop music was ranked the most favored genre and found to have the fastest task completion
times however, no genre of music was statistically significant in improving resident
performance.
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Article info
Publication history
Accepted:
January 20,
2023
Received in revised form:
January 19,
2023
Received:
July 8,
2022
Publication stage
In Press Journal Pre-ProofIdentification
Copyright
© 2023 Published by Elsevier Inc.
