The Role of Music on the Delirium in Traumatic Patients: A Case Study in the ICU of Peymanieh Hospital of Jahrom, Fars Province, Iran

Delirium is a common syndrome in traumatic patients hospitalized in the ICU, suffering from various physical and psychological complications and increases the mortality and length of stay. Music therapy is a non-medical intervention whose safe courses can be used as a low-cost and effective way to check and treat delirium. In this study, 80 traumatic patients hospitalized in the ICU of Peymanieh Hospital of Jahrom, Fars Province were randomly and equally assigned to two groups; test and control. Music therapy was treated for patients of the test group twice a day for 45 minutes and those in the control group only received conventional care in the ICU. All patients were examined in terms of delirium, vital signs, the dose and type of medications used to control pain and delirium, and duration of mechanical ventilation in every nursing shift. The results showed that there was no significant difference between the test and control groups in terms of delirium but the mean amount of acetaminophen and diclofenac used to check and treat delirium in the test group was significantly lower than that of the control group. Conclusively music therapy could be safely referred to delirium patients to decrease the need for acetaminophen and diclofenac.