Citation

Hawksworth CR, Sivalingam P, Asbury AJ. Anaesthesia 1998; 53(2): 195-197.

Affiliation

University Department of Anaesthesia, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9534648

Abstract

Music is frequently played in operating theatres, but may prove distracting to anaesthetists. We undertook a laboratory-based study of the effects of music on the psychomotor performance of 12 anaesthetic trainees. Using part of the computer-based PsychE psychomotor evaluation programme, we were unable to demonstrate any effect of self-chosen music, silence, white noise or classical music on their performance in these tests.

Language: en