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What is RECOVER CPR？
The goal of the Reevaluating Veterinary Resuscitation and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (RECOVER) is to provide current, evidence-based, uniform CPR guidelines for veterinary medicine, to disseminate these guidelines widely to raise the standard of care in emergency veterinary care, and to improve outcomes for dogs and cats suffering from cardiopulmonary arrest.
The RECOVER WEB course and the Rescuer certification course sponsored by JaVECCS are conducted with the official approval of the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society (VECCS) and the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care (ACVECC) of the United States.
Dr. Fletcher's Biography
Dr. Fretcher received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University, his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the University of California, Berkeley/San Francisco, and his DVM from the University of California, Davis.
He then completed a small animal rotating internship and residency in emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and became a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency Critical Care.
He has been teaching at Cornell University since 2006 and has received numerous teaching awards, including the SUNY Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award in 2013.
He is co-chair of the RECOVER Initiative, the first evidence-based veterinary CPR guidelines.
His research interests include fibrinolysis abnormalities, epilepsy, and the use of real-life simulation in education. He has created numerous simulators for veterinary education since 2009, and in the fall of 2015 opened the Center for Real-Life Simulation at Cornell University; Tetlow and Roy Park Innovation Lab. at Cornell University in the fall of 2015.
Why RECOVER?
I had a strong desire to establish a standard for training methods of CPR for veterinarians and veterinary technicians as in human medicine. So I contacted my colleague Dr. Manuel Boller, Veterinary Resuscitation Specialist, who at the time was working in a large CPR laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, and asked him if he would be interested in working together.
He agreed, but informed me that the reality was that no one had yet attempted to establish the optimal method of CPR in dogs and cats.
So we decided to take the first step toward that end by creating guidelines, and RECOVER was born.