Posted on 05/04/2022 9:05:11 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Nine times out of ten, if we’re listening to AC/DC, no one’s life should be in our hands. The Australian party rockers’ music is best suited for skulling coldies, laughing at d**kheads, and occasionally driving an ATV into a pool. But according to a new study, blasting AC/DC actually helps the speed and precision of surgeons on the job.
As reported by Ultimate Guitar, a recent study at Heidelberg University in Germany showed that playing AC/DC’s music increased both speed and precision of cuts made by surgeons. Apparently, the amount of time needed to make a precision cut went from 236 seconds to 139 seconds, while an accuracy test showed a precision increase of approximately 5%.
On top of that, the effects of AC/DC were compounded when the music was played at a high volume. According to Heidelberg’s lead researcher Cui Yang, via The Sun:
“Our results show that both soft rock and hard rock can enhance surgical performance.
“For hard rock music, the positive effect was especially noticeable when the music was played in high volume.
“It is possible that music with high rhythmicity could provide a tempo to keep up the speed of the performance and thus enhance task performance.”
It should be noted that while other music was also used in this study, it had different effects. For example, The Beatles’ “Hey Jude” and “Let it Be” halved the time needed to stitch up wounds, but the minute you played them at high volumes, the beneficial effects were lost.
Anyone who’s ever listened to AC/DC at the gym probably isn’t surprised that the music can get you in the zone. Still, we urge everyone who’s laying on an operating table to offer your headphones to your surgeon and play them a little “Shoot to Thrill.” Worst case scenario, the doctor spills a little beer on your liver. Beer’s good for livers, right?
Springsteen=AGINJ
surely that goes in his favor, no?
-OGINJ
I wonder what listening to Barry Manilow at high volume would do
Voluntary castration.
eeeeeyaaaaa! LOL
Sounds about right, but I don’t think I would want “Highway to Hell” played while I’m on the operating table.
ACDC and Iron Maiden got me through algebra/trig and accounting.
or Enter Sandman
I’d rather the surgeon and the anesthesiologist be able to hear each other when they got my body cavity open and probing around.
But maybe I’m just queer that way.
Don’t want to go on the “Highway to Hell” to soon.
It makes sense then that Zed Cochrane was listening to heavy metal music when he invented the warp drive on Star Trek.
And as a patient of one of these...FEMALE surgeons, my favorite song is “Touch Too Much”.
I don’t want any playing “Have a drink on me” during my surgery...🍸
Awesome song.
It was one of those nights
When you turned out the lights
And everything comes into view
She was taking her time
I was losing my mind
There was nothing that she wouldn’t do
It wasn’t the first
It wasn’t the last
She knew we was making love
I was so satisfied
Deep down inside
Like a hand in a velvet glove
Seems like a touch, a touch too much
Seems like a touch, a touch too much
Too much for my body, too much for my brain
This damn woman’s gonna drive me insane
She’s got a touch, a touch too much
She had the face of an angel
Smiling with sin
A body of Venus with arms
Dealing with danger
Stroking my skin
Let the thunder and lightening start
It wasn’t the first
It wasn’t the last
It wasn’t that she didn’t care
She wanted it hard
And wanted it fast
She liked it done medium rare
Seems like a touch, a touch too much
Seems like a touch, a touch too much
Too much for my body, too much for my brain
This damn woman’s gonna drive me insane
She had a touch, a touch too much, touch me
Seems like a touch (touch too much)
You know it’s much too much (much too much)
I really want to feel your (touch too much)
Girl you know you’re giving me (much too much)
Seems like a touch
Just a dirty little touch
I really need your touch
‘Cause you’re much too much too much too much
Seems like a touch, a touch too much
Seems like a touch, a touch too much
Giving me a touch, a touch too much
Baby gotta a touch, a touch too much
Seems like a touch, a touch too much
A touch too much
A touch too much
A touch too much
A touch
Come on and touch me
Yeah
Bon Scott was a badarse.
Cause the surgeon to stab himself in the ears with his scalpel.
Desperado.
Or Witch-ay Woman.
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