Mozart Better Than Metallica In Surgery

Let's hope your anaesthetist listens to Mozart not Metallica while you're under the knife. Preliminary Australian research suggests playing classical music may be better than rock music in the operating theatre.

Professor Penelope Sanderson from the University of Queensland and team found that patients' heart rates and respiration are better monitored when classical music is playing in the background.

Sanderson admits the choice of tracks may have influenced the results.

"We chose bad 1980s rock/pop", including Bryan Adams, she says. For the classical music the researchers played Bach.

So now I have a new fear... not only am I afraid of possibly dying on the operating table one day, I'm now terrified that the last song my ears will ever take in will be "Summer of '69." Blech. I'd rather check out in some sort of bizarre weed-eater incident than die with Brian Friggin' Adams ringing in my ears. Oh, the horror. The horror.

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