Podcast: Music interventions for mechanically ventilated patients

Many patients in intensive care units will require mechanical ventilation at some point, which often causes them major distress and anxiety. Identifying effective ways to alleviate this is important and one option might be music. Cheryl Dileo, from the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University in the Philadelphia, USA, describes the evidence from the December 2014 update of her Cochrane Review.