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Supervisory attentional control following carbon monoxide poisoning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2004

KERRY JONES ,
GLYNDA JANE KINSELLA ,
BEN ONG  and
CARLOS SCHEINKESTEL
KERRY JONES
Affiliation:
School of Psychological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
GLYNDA JANE KINSELLA
Affiliation:
School of Psychological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia Department of Psychology, Caulfield General Medical Centre, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
BEN ONG
Affiliation:
School of Psychological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
CARLOS SCHEINKESTEL
Affiliation:
Department of Intensive Care and Hyperbaric Medicine, The Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Prahran, Victoria, Australia
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Abstract

This study tested the hypothesis that carbon monoxide poisoning would produce a deficit of attentional control, the supervisory attention system, as indexed by attention switching and attentional scheduling, and that routine attentional orienting would be unaffected. Seventy-three cases of carbon monoxide poisoning were assessed at 3 days and 1 month post poisoning on tasks of attentional orienting, and tasks of the supervisory attention system. The results were compared to a group of 53 healthy community participants. A deficit of the supervisory attentional system was documented on a task of attention switching in survivors of both deliberate and accidental CO poisoning, leaving attentional scheduling intact. There was no deficit of attentional orienting in the current study. Alteration of consciousness was found to predict subsequent supervisory attention system impairment in correlation analyses, and the deficit was persistent for a 1 month follow-up period. (JINS, 2004, 10, 843–850.)

Keywords

Carbon monoxide poisoningAttentionSupervisory Attention SystemNeuropsychological outcome
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 10 , Issue 6 , October 2004 , pp. 843 - 850
Copyright
© 2004 The International Neuropsychological Society

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