By Georg Rodewald, Allen E. Willner (auth.), Allen E. Willner, Georg Rodewald (eds.)
Georg Rodewald collage of Hamburg Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany Allen E. Willner Hillside medical institution Glen Oaks, big apple not like the preliminary years of cardiac surgical procedure (37 years ago), there's now expanding curiosity in cerebral safety. Rodewald [1] in 1978 used to be one of the first to indicate the surgeon's main issue with "psychopathological difficulties" and Taylor [2] in 1989 under pressure that" ••• the notice of the cerebral effects of open middle surgical procedure has risen significantly in recent times • • • " This booklet reports the facts for neurological, mental, and neuropsycho logical reactions to cardiac surgical procedure. In prior experiences one challenge is that small samples of sufferers have been studied with diverse measuring tools in order that it used to be tricky to ma~e experience of inconsistent findings. substantial controversy resulted with little skill to deal with discrepant findings. It seemed that an enormous multi middle learn utilizing uniform measures will help make clear the picture.
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WHAT DO PATIENTS WITH INCOMPLETE POSTOPERATIVE DATA TELL US? aulsen Department of Psychiatry Kiel University Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany The data presented here are part of the International Study and based upon the standard measuring techniques of the study. One aim of our project was to describe patients with missing data after coronary bypass surgery. Drop-out of subjects from the time of the pretest to posttest must be minimized and monitored to identify sources of bias in the data. Incomplete data due to subject fatigue, pain, death or refusal are common sources of error.
Lushene, P. Vagg, and G. Jacobs, "Manual for the State Trait Anxiety Inventory," Consulting Psychologist Press, Palo Alto (1983). PSYCHIATRIC ISSUES: SIMPLE FREQUENCIES PRE- AND POSTOPERATIVELY H. Speidel Dept. Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany The paper of Rodewald and Willner has informed us about the history, aims, design and the state of the art of the International Study. Dahme & Goetze as well as Strauss & Paulsen have introduced three of the standardized psychiatric instruments used in the study and the latter have presented results obtained with two of these instruments, the Hamilton Scales, in one of the centers (Kiel, FRG).
29 PSYCHIATRIC ISSUES Compared to the preceding figure, Figure 2 shows more distinct differences between the preoperative and dischar~e measure and the postoperative measure. The proportion of patients who are in the depressed range preoperatively increases in the first postoperative days. The proportion of patients having a problematic mood condition increases following surgery compared to the preoperative state. This is certainly an important result. related to preoperative and postoperative psychological' care.