Top Coma Experts Unveil Plan to Improve Patient Outcomes (IMAGE)

University of Virginia Health System

Top Coma Experts Unveil Plan to Improve Patient Outcomes

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"With this initiative, we hope to be able to treat patients in a coma the way we treat patients with strokes and heart attacks. In the future, having impaired consciousness from brain injury won't be the lifelong medical condition it is now," said J. Javier Provencio, MD.

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Dan Addison | UVA Health

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