Preoperative Guided Imagery Improves Cardiac Surgery Outcomes
September 9, 2011 by Sara
Filed under Research Reports
Preoperative guided imagery improves cardiac surgery outcomes. Effect of guided imagery on length of stay, pain and anxiety in cardiac surgery patients. “Cardiac surgery patients who listened to a pre-op guided imagery surgical tape had significantly less pain, anxiety and two days shorter hospital stay.”
-Tusek, D.L., Cwynar, R., and Cosgrove, D.M., Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, Journal of Cardiovascular Management 10; 2: 22-8 1999
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