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Noise cancelling headphones have surprising post-operation benefit…
The study's authors say patients wearing the headphones during surgery had a thirty-two percent lower risk of nausea and vomiting; operating rooms averaged sixty-six decibels.
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- First reported by New York Post: “Noise cancelling headphones have surprising post-operation benefit: New study”.
- Covered on BBN on Monday, October 19, 2026, at 11:02 AM ET on BBN Newsroom, by Hank Ledger, Vera Bullock and Dale Bearman.
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Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOkay, the one we teased: researchers say noise-cancelling headphones cut nausea and vomiting after surgery, about seventeen fewer patients per hundred, a thirty-two percent lower risk, in a study presented to anesthesiologists.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOperating rooms averaged about sixty-six decibels, somewhere between conversation and a vacuum. Is the noise-cancelling setting on, Hank?
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPlease say yes.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorPatients are asleep, yet the brain still hears the vacuum. Even unconscious, you can't escape the noise.
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