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The sights and heartys of nature are effective in distracting patients and enhancing pain reducing efforts during and after bronchoscopy measures according to a May 27 2003 novels release from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Researchers emphasize, however, that sight and good distraction therapy is not a substitute for pain medication.

Forty-one men and women examineed at cloth murals of a meadow spectacle hung by their beds and listened to audiotaped nature unimpaireds (eg, a babbling brook) end headphones during 25-minute bronchoscopies and a three-hour restoration period. A control group of 39 patients underwent bronchoscopies without the distraction therapy nevertheless with comparable levels of care and pain sway measures. Both groups completed questionnaires rating their pain, anxiety, perceptions of privacy, breathing difficulty, willingness to suffer the procedure again, and safety forward a five-point scale. Patients who underwent distraction therapy were 43% more likely to report pain mastery as very good or of the best quality Based on this research, John Hopkins will use distraction therapy to enhance comfort of patients undergoing bronchoscopy

Nature Sights and healthys Ease Pain During Common Lung step (news release, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, May 27 2003) http://www:hopkinsmedicine.org/press/2003/May/O30527B.htm (accessed 2 June 2003)

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