ORIGINAL STUDY NEURO-PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS IN DRIVERS WITH CHRONIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE SECONDARY TO CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE

This work aim at investigating selective-cognitive disfunctions in a sample of drivers suffering from chronic respiratory failure secondary to chron ic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), in order to: 1) verify whether deficits of global cognitive and/or neuropsychological functions were present in drivers suffering from chronic respiratory failure secondary to COPD; 2) determine influence of chroni c respiratory failure secondary to COPD on cognitive and neuro-psychological functions; 3) assess a suiting evaluation protocol based on quantifiable, reproducible and verifiable parameters. The present study is one of the few which had inves tigated and found selective-cognitive disfunctions in a sample of drivers with chronic re spiratory failure secondary to COPD, in order to assess an evaluation protocol based on quantifiable and verifiable parameters.