Top Coma Experts Seek to Improve Patient Outcomes (IMAGE)

University of Virginia Health System

Top Coma Experts Seek to Improve Patient Outcomes

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"We now have the tools to understand comatose patients in a way we haven't in the past. This opens the door to ask the question, 'Can we improve consciousness in patients in a coma?'" said advisory council member and lead author J. Javier Provencio, MD, director of UVA Health's Nerancy Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit.

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Dan Addison | UVA Communications

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