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- Title
Non-word reading test vs anaesthesia. How do anaesthetised patients decode the contents without referring to the meaning?
- Authors
Płotek, Włodzimierz; Cybulski, Marcin; Łockiewicz, Marta; Bogdanowicz, Marta; Kluzik, Anna; Grzeskowiak, Malgorzata; Drobnik, Leon
- Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine the phonological functioning (reading speed and accuracy) of hospital patients under general anaesthesia administered during colonoscopy.~Background~Background~In this study the '¿atysz' non-word reading test was used to measure the impact of selected anaesthetics on the phonological aspect of language processing (defined as decoding without referring to the meaning) in a group of 22 anaesthetised patients compared to 23 non-anaesthetised patients from university clinics.~Methods~Methods~Compared to the preoperative performance, a decrease in reading accuracy and reading speed was observed only in the Anaesthesia Group - AG (in the subjects aged ¿ 35 years) 1.5 h after the administration of anaesthetics. Postoperatively, the AG were significantly slower and less accurate than the Control Group - CG - after 1.5 h. After 3 h, the AG had regained their baseline values both in reading accuracy and reading speed. During the last assessment session, the AG pronounced 82% of the words correctly, while the CG pronounced 74% correctly. Moreover, subjects aged ¿ 35 years performed worse than younger subjects in their reading accuracy and speed.~Results~Results~The patients who underwent colonoscopy under general anaesthesia manifested impaired phonological functioning shortly after the procedure, both in the speed and accuracy of reading non-words. However, the accuracy problems subsided relatively quickly.~Conclusions~Conclusions
- Publication
Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy / Anestezjologia, Intensywna Terapia, 2014, Vol 46, Issue 3, p139
- ISSN
1642-5758
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.5603/ait.2014.0026