Bender Gestalt Evaluation of Brain Dysfunction Following Open-Heart Surgery

The heart-lung machine makes open-heart surgery possible by providing extracorporeal blood circulation; however, it creates microemboli in the blood that cause neurological damage. A new filter, designed to remove these emboli, was assessed by preoperative and postoperative Bender Gestalt testing. A...

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Published in:Journal of personality assessment 1974-12, Vol.38 (6), p.556-562
Main Authors: Landis, Bernard, Baxter, James, Patterson, Russel H., Tauber, Carl E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Bender-Gestalt Test
Cardiac Surgical Procedures - adverse effects
Clinical Trials as Topic
Female
Filtration - instrumentation
Heart-Lung Machine - adverse effects
Heart-Lung Machine - instrumentation
Humans
Hypoxia, Brain - diagnosis
Hypoxia, Brain - etiology
Hypoxia, Brain - prevention & control
Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis - diagnosis
Intracranial Embolism and Thrombosis - etiology
Male
Middle Aged
Oxygenators - instrumentation
Oxygenators, Membrane - instrumentation
Ultrasonography
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Summary:The heart-lung machine makes open-heart surgery possible by providing extracorporeal blood circulation; however, it creates microemboli in the blood that cause neurological damage. A new filter, designed to remove these emboli, was assessed by preoperative and postoperative Bender Gestalt testing. A lesser degree of the kinds of visual-motor difficulties associated with neurological deficit was produced by patients who received filtered blood. Postoperative impairment was assessed with some precision by using the Pascal-Suttell method of scoring distortions of Bender designs. The Bender scores were consistent with ultrasonic (sonar) counts of microemboli.
ISSN:0022-3891
1532-7752
DOI:10.1080/00223891.1974.10120017