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Professor Pia Dreyer from the Department of Public Health is heading a new research project that will study and support the cognitive rehabilitation of intensive care patients, both in the intensive care unit and during the subsequent period at home. The Novo Nordisk Foundation has given the project a grant of DKK 7,5 million.
2020.11.12 |
Professor Pia Dreyer receives DKK 7.5 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to study cognitive changes in waking patients admitted to the intensive care units. Photo: Private
The past decade has seen a shift in the care and treatment of patients in intensive care units. Fewer patients are being placed in an artificially induced coma during their hospitalisation, and more patients are conscious. This development has led to major challenges in clinical nursing practice, in particular because patients often experience cognitive changes in the form of e.g. reduced concentration and memory, which can affect them for years after being discharged.
Professor of nursing Pia Dreyer will now identify the consequences of these changes and propose solutions and methods to alleviate cognitive difficulties among the patients. Among other things, she will investigate the most optimal time for patients to undergo cognitive rehabilitation, the role that relatives play, and which interventions a cognitive rehabilitation programme should contain.
The Novo Nordisk Foundation is supporting the project with DKK 7.5 million through their Nursing Research Programme.
The coverage is based on press material from the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
Professor Pia Dreyer
Aarhus University, Department of Public Health and
Aarhus University Hospital, Department of Intensive Care
Mobile: (+45) 6167 7490
Email: dreyer@ph.au.dk