Neurointensive care

Neurointensive care at HonorHealth treats patients with life-threatening disorders and injuries of the brain, spinal cord and nerves. A neurointensivist, a physician who cares for patients in the neurological ICU, has expertise not only in critical care medicine, but also in recognizing and treating neurologic emergencies.

In addition to a neurointensivist, the team of experts treating you in the neurological ICU can include neurosurgeons, neurologists, interventional neuroradiologists, oncologists, physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians, and anesthesiologists specializing in pain control.

Admission to a neurologic intensive care unit has been associated with:

• Improved outcomes
• Lower mortality rates
• Shorter length of stay
• Lower total costs of care compared with a general ICU setting

HonorHealth offers treatment for:

• Stroke
• Aneurysm
• Status epilepticus (when a seizure lasts longer than five minutes or when a patient doesn’t recover between seizures because they happen close together)
• Neuromuscular respiratory failure
• Infections of the brain
• Traumatic brain injury
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage
• Brain tumor