ICU Programs
ICU Music Programs
Music Over Mind places trained musicians beside the adult ICU patient — selecting repertoire in real time to support rest, reduce sedation burden, and anchor patients through the disorienting sensory environment of critical care. A non-pharmacologic bedside service built for mechanically-ventilated, post-surgical, and long-stay ICU patients and the families who keep vigil beside them.
Overview
What live interventional music supports in the adult ICU
Four outcome domains M.O.M.'s ICU programming addresses — sedation reduction, delirium mitigation, family presence, and integration with the critical care plan.
Reducing sedation need
A responsive repertoire that supports rest, easing the pharmacologic burden in mechanically-ventilated and post-surgical patients.
Mitigating ICU delirium
A familiar acoustic anchor that orients patients to time and place across the disorienting sensory environment of an ICU stay.
Supporting family presence
A quiet, responsive presence during family visits and bedside vigils — non-pharmacologic support for families through the hardest stretches of critical care.
Complementing the critical care plan
Running alongside ICU clinical priorities and the team-led care plan — a complement, never a substitute, for clinical care.
Curious how live interventional music compares to recorded playlists and credentialed board-certified music practice? Read the music-in-clinical-settings FAQ.
Sources & Partnerships
Where M.O.M.'s evidence and reach come from
The partner institutions that anchor M.O.M.'s published-evidence framing across settings — referenced on the music-in-clinical-settings FAQ.
UNC Lab for Neurostimulation
Clinical research collaboration on live music as a non-pharmacologic intervention.
Parkinson's Foundation
Partner advancing evidence-based research on live music as a healing intervention.
Carolina Performing Arts
Co-presenting partner on live demo programming that links performance and clinical research.
UNC WELL
University-wide wellness partnership delivering live music programming at The Farm at Penny Lane.
UNC Health
Health-system partner across 11+ hospitals and clinics — bedside delivery via DooR to DooR.
Brookdale Senior Living · Croasdaile Retirement · Forest at Duke
Standing senior-living partners for regular live programming.
Bring live interventional music to your ICU
Tell our partnerships team about your unit — census, acuity, current bedside programming, and the window you are scoping.