Antonio J Salazar, Ana S Silva, Claudia Silva, Carla M Borges, Miguel V Correia, Rubim S Santos, Joao P Vilas-Boas
Low-cost wearable data acquisition for stroke rehabilitation: a proof-of-concept study on accelerometry for functional task assessment
Topics in stroke rehabilitation
known whether neurotoxicity produced anaesthetics administered young animals also occur children exposure infant macaques ketamine impairs performance selected domains operant test battery otb also administered children study determined whether similar pattern results otb found children exposed procedures requiring general anaesthesia age 3 yr analysed data mayo anesthesia safety kids mask study unexposed singlyexposed multiplyexposed children born olmsted county mn usa 1994 2007 sampled using propensityguided approach prospectively underwent otb testing ages 812 1520 yr using five tasks generated 15 otb test scores primary analysis none otb test scores depended upon anaesthesia exposure status corrected multiple comparisons cluster analysis identified four clusters subjects cluster membership determined relative performance otb tasks evidence association exposure status cluster membership exploratory factor analysis showed otb scores loaded onto four factors score one factor significantly less multiplyexposed children mean standardised difference 028 95 confidence interval 055 001 p004 significance survive sensitivity analysis accounting outlying values findings provide little evidence support hypothesis children exposed procedures requiring anaesthesia show deficits otb tasks similar observed nonhuman primates