Cognitive Impairment After Critical Illness: Prevention and Treatment

• 29/09/2015

Why did you decide to investigate NTF-prep? Long-term cognitive impairment after critical illness (CIACI) was first described in 1999 (Hopkins 1999). In 1992 we noticed that in cardiac surgery with extracorporeal circulation patients there was a correlation between jugular bulb lactic acid and cognitive decline. We concluded that CIACI was a real dementia, not a post-traumatic stress disorder...