Key result
Cognitive and memory assessment tools provide valuable diagnostic material for evaluating post-surgical cardiac clients, though further research is required to validate them in this population.
Why the study?
What are the reliable and valid cognitive and memory assessment tools for cardiac clients post-surgery?
What are the reliable and valid cognitive and memory assessment tools for cardiac clients post-surgery?
This review highlights the need for occupational therapists to use reliable cognitive assessment tools for post-surgical cardiac patients, while noting the need for further validation in this specific population.
May guide cautious cognitive screening by OTs in post-cardiac surgery patients; leaves open population-specific validation.
A small percentage of cardiac clients experience cognitive and memory disorders after surgery. Since these disorders could limit a client's ability to function independently in daily activities, it would seem imperative that occupational therapists be able to examine the cognitive and memory dysfunctions of their cardiac clients. This paper presented information on the reliability and validity of a number of tools that have been administered by researchers and rehabilitation professionals to assess cognition. A critique of the information on assessment instruments and screening tools suggested that several tools could provide therapists with valuable diagnostic material on cognition. Promising screening tools and assessments appeared to require further research with a cardiac population.
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Kirkpatrick et al. (1992) conducted a review in Cognitive and memory disorders after cardiac surgery. Cognitive and memory assessment tools was evaluated. Cognitive and memory assessment tools provide valuable diagnostic material for evaluating post-surgical cardiac clients, though further research is required to validate them in this population.
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