Faced with the suffering of patients due to hospitalization, illness,rnphysical and psychic pain and the necessary but often invasivernprocedures, we seek to relieve their pain and discomfort by offeringrnthem a more humanized treatment, based on our belief in therntherapeutic effects of music. We are not referring to music therapyrnstricto senso but rather of a new posture in relation to the use of musicrnin the area of health: the so-called “Music Medicine†[1], a therapeuticrnapproach for the use of music in a medical context. Music therapyrndeveloped its practices with a qualitative methodology more relatedrnto humanistic traditions than to Medical Science. “Music Medicine†wasrndeveloped as an isolated discipline, seeking to incorporate thernlegitimate therapeutic use of music within the medical context [1]. Musicrnexerted a profound influence on involuntary physiology, affecting thernpulse and blood pressure, relaxing muscles, altering the breathing andrnaffecting the emotions to the point of making you cry or even laughrn[40]. It interferes in the system that regulates the emotions, thusrnconstituting an ally to help hospitalized patients improve [22]. Severalrnstudies indicate that music has soothing effects and is beneficial inrnreducing stress and anxiety in coronary patients. The effects of stressrnon the cardiovascular system have also been proven. However, thernmeanings assigned to music when used during hemodynamicrnprocedures are unknown, as are the meanings of the experience ofrnthese procedures. We believe that music can alleviate the psychic painrnand consequently, physical pain too, of the patients at the time ofrncarrying out hemodynamic procedures, when they reflect about lifernand death. This research is based on a Clinical QualitativernMethodology, which deals with the investigation of symbolic meaningsrnfrom reports of adults about phenomena that involves the healthdiseasernprocess.
