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Assessment and Communication for People with Disorders of Consciousness
Published on: August 1, 2017
Consciousness and speech evaluation of 96 patients with craniocerebral injury
Chuan-jun Guo1, Yan-chun Wang, Yang Zhao
1Department of Neurosurgery, Brain Hospital, Liaocheng 252000, Shandong Province, China. gcj0123456@163.com
Objective:
To explore the effective methods for evaluating the consciousness and speech status of patients with special types of cerebral injuries.
Methods:
A total of 96 patients with injury in the language center and in coma were treated with operative and correlated conventional therapies. Then their recovery status of consciousness and speech was observed.
Results:
All the patients were recovered to consciousness. Sixty-nine patients with aphasia were cured completely, but 7 patients were complicated with incomplete ataxic aphasia, 15 with incomplete sensory aphasia, and 5 with incomplete mixed aphasia.
Conclusions:
For the patients with injury in the language center, evaluation of the conscious state with GCS scoring system has certain limitations and conscious behaviours are advantageous evidences to evaluate the consciousness recovery of the patients. The patients with conscious disturbance and injury in the language center should be considered to have aphasia.
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