The Effects of a Music Therapist Designed Listening Program on Intraoperative Vitrectomy

This prospective trial will block randomize a consecutive cohort of patients undergoing routine vitrectomy surgery at an university hospital to a designed listening program during surgery or to nothing in order to determine whether music listening during surgery can measurably result in decreased patient pain assessed by the Wong-Baker Faces Pain scale. Secondary outcome measures will be blood pressure, need for anxiety medication, postoperative pain medication, and patient overall experience.

Inclusion Criteria: * Inclusion criteria will consist of patients already scheduled for elective vitrectomy surgery at a tertiary academic university hospital. Exclusion Criteria: * Exclusion criteria consist of: patients with deafness or unilateral or bilateral severe hearing loss, unwillingness or inability to complete post-surgical surveys, previous vitrectomy surgeries, diagnosed anxiety disorder (claustrophobia, etc.), and/or chronic narcotic or substance abuse.