Critical Care / Intensive Care

Neurological Intensive Care

Close, constant attention by a team of specially trained health professionals

The Neurosciences ICU is a six-bed intensive care unit for patients with life-threatening neurological and neurosurgical diseases.

Specialists in neurology and neurosurgery are assisted by neuro nurses, pharmacists and physical and occupational therapists. Advanced monitoring techniques identify critical problems before permanent neurologic injury occurs.

Conditions diagnosed and treated
  • Stroke
    • Cerebral infarction (especially those in need of thrombolysis)
    • Intracerebral (brain) hemorrhage
    • Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
    • Arteriovenous malformation (AVM)
    • Dural sinus thrombosis
  • Head and spine trauma
  • Seizures, including status epilepticus (persistent brain seizures)
  • Severe or deteriorating demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis
  • Major neuro-surgical procedures
    • Spine surgery
    • Carotid artery surgery
    • Endovascular procedures (coil embolization, stenting)
  • Craniotomy for tumors, intracranial hemorrhage, aneurysms, and AVM
  • Neuromuscular diseases
    • Guillain-Barre Syndrome or Landry’s paralysis
    • Myasthenia Gravis
  • Infections of the central nervous system
    • Encephalitis
    • Meningitis
    • Brain abscess
  • Brain and spine tumors
 
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