Neurocritical Care

Saving Lives After Brain Injury

Brain and spinal cord injuries and illnesses are often complex. A neurocritical care intensive care unit (neuro ICU) provides the specialized care required for a successful recovery.

With our neurocritical care team, you are in the hands of experts — doctors and nurses who are trained to care for the most serious neurological conditions. We offer the continuous monitoring and advanced treatments needed to protect the brain.

A Longtime Focus on Neurocritical Care

我们在20世纪90年代开始关注神经危重症护理。当时，对神经内科icu患者的专科护理还处于起步阶段。几十年后，它仍然被认为是医疗保健中一个相对较新的领域。

We recognized the importance of dedicated care for these patients then, and we continue that focus today.

Our neuro ICUs allow us to carefully monitor and provide advanced treatments to patients with critical neurological conditions. We bring years of expertise and experience caring for:

• Brain and spinal cord trauma
• Brain (subarachnoid) hemorrhage
• Encephalitis
• Seizures
• Stroke

Why Choose Us: Your Neurocritical Care Team

We’re focused on finding the best treatments for our patients — something we do as a team 24/7.

Our brain and spinal cord injury specialists are trained to meet the unique needsof people with the most serious neurological illnesses and injuries. Many of them are fellowship-trained in critical care. This training is above and beyond what’s required to practice medicine.

Your team includes experts in:

• 介入放射学:该专业使用成像，如CT和MRI扫描，进行诊断和治疗。

• Neurocritical intensive care:This unit provides care for severe neurological conditions.

• Neurosurgery:这些医生通过手术治疗影响大脑、脊椎和神经系统的疾病。

• Vascular neurology:These specialists treat strokes and other conditions affected by the blood vessels in the brain.

Continuous Monitoring in our Neuro ICUs

A neurocritical care patient’s status can change quickly. Information is key for proper treatment and recovery.

Around-the-clock monitoring and diagnostics allows us to accurately determine next steps at all stages of treatment and recovery. We monitor patients for many levels, including:

• Blood flow to the brain

• Brain activity, measured through EEG (electroencephalogram)

• Brain blood pressure

• Intracranial pressure (pressure on the skull from brain swelling)

• Oxygen levels in the brain

Our Neurocritical Care Treatments

We provide innovative and comprehensive treatments, including:

• Therapeutic hypothermia:Cooling the body reduces inflammation and brain damage.

• Intravascular cooling:Cooling the brain can prevent brain damage.

• Decompressive craniectomy:Your neurosurgeon removes a part of the skull. This procedure relieves pressure caused by brain swelling following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) or stroke.

We also offerneuroendovascular techniques治疗中风，动脉瘤和其他血管疾病。与传统手术相比，这些创新的治疗方法恢复更快，风险更小。During them:

• Your neurosurgeon inserts a tube called an endoscope into the blood vessels.

• This device allows them to deliver treatments, such as stents, balloons or medication.

Find out more about ourstroke and aneurysm care.

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