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A multimodal approach to better predict recovery in patients with disorders of consciousness - EurekAlert


When a patient is admitted to intensive care due to a disorder of consciousness—such as a coma—establishing their neurological prognosis is a crucial yet challenging task. To reduce the uncertainty that precedes the medical decision, a group of clinicians and researchers from the Paris Brain Institute and the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris have assessed the efficacy of a multimodal approach that combines various clinical, electrophysiological, behavioural and neuroimaging indicators. The team's findings, published in Nature Medicine, show that this approach leads to better prognosis.

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