A prospective, randomised, controlled study examining binaural beat audio and pre‐operative anxiety in patients undergoing general anaesthesia for day case surgery
Padmanabhan R, Hildreth AJ, Laws D. · Anaesthesia · 2005 · randomised controlled trial, double blind
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“offering binaural beat audio before day case procedures might serve to bring about anxiolysis in the majority of patients without impacting adversely on postoperative functioning”
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16115248/ · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04287.x · https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04287.x
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- A prospective, randomised, controlled study examining binaural beat audio and pre‐operative anxiety in patients undergoing general anaesthesia for day case surgery
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“offering binaural beat audio before day case procedures might serve to bring about anxiolysis in the majority of patients without impacting adversely on postoperative functioning”
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16115248/ · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04287.x · https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04287.x
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16115248/ · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04287.x · https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04287.x
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