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Postoperative hospital course of patients with history of severe psychiatric illness
S Solomon1, J R McCartney, S M Saravay
1Inpatient Psychiatric Consultations, Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center.
General Hospital Psychiatry
|September 1, 1987
Abstract:
The postoperative hospital course of 54 patients with a past history of psychiatric illness was studied through chart review. Both chronic schizophrenics and chronic depressives tolerated surgical procedures well, without any unusual difficulties or exacerbation of psychiatric illness. They represented no management problems. Patients with acute, severe upset in the preoperative period (regardless of diagnosis) presented most of the management problems postoperatively.