Best used in conjunction with Preparing For Your Surgery
As seen on PBS New Medicine March 7, 2006.

A program designed by Ron Eslinger, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist and Certified Master Hypnotherapy Instructor who uses positive suggestions and biorhythmic music to enhance patient satisfaction after general anesthesia, regional anesthesia, and conscious sedation.

CD # 1 - Bio-Rhythmic music is the background for positive suggestions for reassurance and healing given in the first person. "I am relaxed and comfortable." "I am healing more quickly than I thought I would.? "My surgery is going well, I am feeling well. " Twenty-nine positive suggestions. A recording for the patients undergoing General Anesthesia.

CD # 2 - Subliminal suggestions for reassurance and healing in the background of specially prepared biorhythmic music. A recording for the patient undergoing conscious sedation or regional anesthesia.

Intra-Operative suggestions reduce incidence of post hysterectomy emesis.
JAMA 1997 Aug; 47(8): 202-204.

"Anesthetised surgical patients with direct physiological suggestions, were associated with doses of post-operative analgesics which were very low. . . .a reduction in the need for post-operative urinary catheter. "
Consciousness Awareness and Pain in General Anesthesia. M.Rosen and J.N. Lunn, 1987 Butterworths and Company, p.135.

Positive therapeutic suggestions may be considered as an alternative to antiemetic therapy.
JAMA 1997 Aug; 47(8): 202-204.

Positive Intraoperative suggestions significantly reduce patients ' morphine requirements postoperatively.
BMJ 1990 Oct 6;301(6755):788-90.

The patients in the intra-operative suggestion group spent significantly less time in hospital after surgery.
Lancet 1988 Aug 27;2(8609):491-3.

Therapeutic suggestions given during neurolept-anaesthesia decrease post-operative nausea and vomiting.
Eur J Anesthesiology 1998 Jul;15 (4):446-52.