Non-word reading test vs anaesthesia. How do anaesthetised patients decode the contents without referring to the meaning?
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2014Autor
Płotek, Włodzimierz
Cybulski, Marcin
Łockiewicz, Marta
Bogdanowicz, Marta
Kluzik, Anna
Grześkowiak, Małgorzata
Drobnik, Leon
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Background: The aim of this study was to examine the phonological functioning (reading speed and accuracy) of
hospital patients under general anaesthesia administered during colonoscopy.
Methods: In this study the ‘Łatysz’ 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.
Results: 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.
Conclusions: 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.
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