Anesthesia & Clinical Research
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ISSN: 2155-6148
+44 1223 790975
ISSN: 2155-6148
+44 1223 790975
Kiran Sharma
Kalpana Chawla Govt. Medical College,
Karnal 132001
India
Research Article
Evaluation of a Computer Program Designed to Assess Psychomotor Recovery after Day Care Anesthesia-Comparison with Clinical Criteria
Author(s): Kiran Sharma and Ajai Kumar JainKiran Sharma and Ajai Kumar Jain
Background and aims: Day care surgery under general anesthesia offers a number of advantages to patients, health care providers and hospitals. A software program "Computer Aided Psychomotor" (CAP) test was designed by one of the authors for objective evaluation of cognitive and affective domains in patients recovering from anesthesia.
Method: The CAP test was evaluated in 40 adult patients of ASA I or II recovering from general anesthesia after day care surgical procedures. Balanced anesthesia technique was administered to all the patients. A series of ten response time (RT) to the CAP test were recorded in the PAC, in the immediate preoperative period and at 30, 60, 90, 120, 180 and 240 minutes in the postoperative period. For comparison, recovery was also assessed by a clinical recovery score (CRS) at the same time interval.
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DOI:
10.4172/2155-6148.1000875