By Stephen Beech

Music hits the right note by helping critically ill heart patients to heal, reveals new research.

Doctors found that music therapy saw decreased heart rate and blood pressure among adults admitted to a hospital cardiac intensive care unit (ICU).

Music therapy is the use of music and its elements to reduce stress and improve quality of life.

It is used as a drug-free method to improve a patient's physical, social, communicative, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual health and well-being.

The new study's goal was to analyze music therapy’s impact on coronary care patients in an ICU.

The Mexican research team monitored physiological variables in 24 patients admitted to the cardiac ICU between July and September last year.

Participants were aged at least 18 and h

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