[Problems in the classification of psychopathological disorders following cardiac surgery with extracorporeal circulation]

Abstract

Classifications of postoperative psychopathological disorders after heart surgery according to the literature are very different as the results are dependent upon the accuracy of the observation. The accuracy and choice of classification are important as the base for identifying causal factors. We studied 214 patients using three alternative methods of classification and discuss problems of classification of the postoperative psychopathological dysfunctions.