Cerebrolysin in Prevention of Postoperative Delirium in Cardiac Surgery

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2023-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Postoperative delirium (POD) and postoperative neuropsychological dysfunction are frequently noted in critically ill patients undergoing elective or emergency surgery and treated in the intensive care unit (ICU). Delirium is a serious complication that prolongs hospital stay and contributes to poor outcomes and increased risk of death. The pathomechanisms of delirium are still not very well recognized and there are several theories that seem to explain it. The most important pathomechanisms of delirium are associated with cerebral ischaemia, disorders in acetylcholinergic system, disorders in neuronal plasticity and oxidative stress. Cerebrolysin, a mixture of various peptides obtained from the structural proteins of the pig's brain, possesses strong antioxidative and neuronal protective properties. Cerebrolysin is recommended to treat patients with dementia, after cerebral ischemia and after brain trauma. It has been documented that Cerebrolysin reduces the severity of secondary brain damage after ischemia, improving neuronal plasticity and then cognitive function, and reducing severity of oxidative stress. Based on these properties it can be speculated that Cerebrolysin may reduce the risk of postoperative delirium in patients undergoing elective surgery, which are associated with a high risk of postoperative delirium.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Medical University of Lublin
• Treatments: Cerebrolysin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• adult patients aged 18 - 90 years (male and female) undergoing elective coronary artery bypass graft surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (extracorporeal circulation) not longer than 120 min.

• written informed consent,

• patients without a history of neurology diseases (stroke, cerebral trauma, treated for seizure),

• patients without stenosis of the carotid artery,

Exclusion Criteria:

• any neurological disease,

• intra-operative cardiac arrest,

• perioperative blood transfusion,

• cardiopulmonary bypass (extracorporeal circulation) longer than 120 min,

• any reoperation,

• lack of signed consent for this study,