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Psychological Disturbances Associated with Open Heart Surgery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

N. Egerton  and
J. H. Kay
N. Egerton
Affiliation:
Department of Surgery of the University of Southern California, the St. Vincent's Hospital and the Los Angeles County General Hospital
J. H. Kay
Affiliation:
Department of Surgery of the University of Southern California, the St. Vincent's Hospital and the Los Angeles County General Hospital
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In our unit open heart surgery has provided sufficient stress to precipitate post-operative psychological disturbances in a high proportion of patients. In the year before this investigation was begun, 21 of 108 patients developed obvious mental abnormalities post-operatively. Blickenstorfer (1) reported post-operative psychosis in 3 per cent, of 300 patients subjected to open heart surgery, and the same incidence, 3 per cent., was reported by Bolton and Bailey (3) following closed and open heart surgery on 1,500 adult patients. The incidence of mental disturbance in our unit was so much higher that a detailed study of all patients (141) operated on in the unit during a 10-month period appeared to be indicated.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 110 , Issue 466 , May 1964 , pp. 433 - 439
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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