Music therapy awakens endangered patients

This newspaper Weifang January 17, 15, Weifang Chinese Medicine Hospital medical staff successfully used music therapy to wake up a critically ill patient. After 45 days of struggling on the life line, Ms. Liu, who had been in deep coma due to cerebral hemorrhage, continued to play a song in her ear, which activated her deep consciousness, stimulated her to hum softly, and eventually restored her consciousness.

Before October 2007, Ms. Liu, 52, who lived in Weichai dormitory in Kuiwen District, suffered from acute coma due to cerebral hemorrhage. Because of the long onset time, her life was temporarily retained after emergency rescue in Weifang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, but CT showed that cerebral hernia had been formed, accompanied by gastrointestinal bleeding and respiratory failure, and pupils on both sides appeared unequally. Big, life is at stake. A month later, the patient was still unconscious.

Director Wang Zeying, the doctor in charge of Ms. Liu, adjusted the treatment plan in time according to the situation, and increased the intensity of all kinds of wake-up therapy on the basis of patient's stable condition. Through observation, he found that patients were more sensitive to music than other stimulation methods. Ms. Liu's husband said that before her illness, Ms. Liu loved singing very much, especially the song "a big river with wide waves". The doctor decided to play the song in her ear every day.

After a week, when Ms. Liu's husband played the song in her ear as usual, a miracle appeared. Ms. Liu's lips moved slightly with the melody! The doctor told Mrs. Liu's husband that Mrs. Liu was still in the stage of unconscious reaction, and that she would extend the playing time of music every day in order to wake up the patient completely.

A week later, Ms. Liu completely regained her initiative, and the words she hummed became clearer and clearer. After two months of rehabilitation treatment, Ms. Liu can not only speak clearly, but also talk with her family about her family. Ms. Liu's consciousness has basically returned to the normal stage and will be discharged in the near future.