Cognitive Performance Assessment in the Emergency Department (KLeiN)

1. Orientation

What year is it?

Who is the current president of the United States?

2. Memory (Part 1)

Please remember the following three words:

Box

Lamp

Jacket

3. Attention

Please tap with your right hand when you hear an "A".

The examiner reads the following sequence of letters aloud (1 letter per second; no errors = 1 point)

S N A G Q A A M P G A T R

Punkt nur wenn Fehlerfrei!

4. Abstraction

What do the following terms have in common?

(e.g., orange and banana = fruit)

Train and Bicycle

5. Language

Please repeat the following sentence exactly as it is:

All I know is that it's Jack's turn to help today.

6. Memory (Part 2)

Do you still remember the words you were supposed to memorize?

Box

Lamp

Jacket

7. Name

What can you see in the pictures below?