Explaining the RECOVER program
The Recovery of Consciousness Via Evidence-Based Medicine and Research (RECOVER) Program seeks to provide specialized, interdisciplinary, and longitudinal care to patients with disorders of consciousness, while generating a rich database to provide insights into these disorders and advance the future of care.
Disorders of consciousness resulting from severe, acute brain injury present major challenges to clinicians and families. The prediction of future recovery of consciousness and function (i.e., neuroprognostication) is a critical assessment that often dictates whether life support is continued or withdrawn, and yet is plagued by uncertainty. The conventional infrastructure of clinical care compounds this challenge, as specialized assessments are typically unavailable, care is poorly coordinated across disciplines, and longitudinal support is inconsistently provided. The result is prognostic assessments that are variable and prone to error, which not only impedes clinical care but also the research necessary to improve it.
The RECOVER Data & Analytics Team
With the support of the CCEB, co-investigators Dr. David Fischer (Neurointensivist and RECOVER Program Director), Dr. Andrea Schneider (Neurointensivist, Epidemiologist and CCEB Senior Scholar), and Dr. Benjamin Abella (Emergency Medicine Physician and Center for Resuscitation Science Director), aim to build and analyze the RECOVER Program database with rigorous statistical techniques to improve the accuracy of neuroprognostication and more effectively guide families through the complexities of brain injury.
Dr. David Fischer
Dr. Andrea Schneider
Dr. Benjamin Abella