Abstract

Aromatherapy or aromatherapy refers to the use of volatile oils or aromas extracted from aromatic plants for therapeutic purposes. This study aims to systematically review the effects of aromatherapy with rose essential oil in patients undergoing various types of surgery. The work was based on the to the 06-PRISMA guideline through the English databases such as Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and ScienceDirect for finding papers related to the the effects of aromatherapy with rose essential oil in patients undergoing surgery with no time limitation. Keywords used in this work were “Rose”, “Rosa damascene”, “aromatherapy”, “surgery”, “anxiety”, and “stress”. From 2364 papers, 80 articles up to January 2022, met the inclusion criteria for analysis in the current systematic review. The most studies were carried out on the effect of aromatherapy with rose essential oil in patients with surgery were open heart (25%), abdominal (25%), inguinal hernia repair (12.5%), otorhinolaryngology (12.5%), percutaneous nephrolithotomy (12.5%), and rhinoplasty (12.5%), respectively. The results of the present systematic review showed that aromatherapy with rose essential oil reduces the anxiety and pain in patients with surgery, and therefore, due to the convenience of using this method and the lack of reports of any complications and also the stability of hemodynamic status of patients in this method, it is recommended to use it before surgery procedure.