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Departments & Clinical Services

Neurological Intensive Care

Neurological, neurosurgical and neuroradiologic patients often require critical care. The 16-bed Neurological Intensive Care Unit (NICU) within the Methodist Neurological Institute provides the highly specialized support these patients need. In addition to intensive care monitoring, mechanical ventilation and other standard intensive-care support, the NICU has extensive additional neurological monitoring capability and is staffed by physicians and nurses with specific training in neurological intensive care, including neurointensivists.

The primary goal of neurological intensive care is to preserve as much brain function as possible, including prevention of continuous damage and restore neural plasticity. In order to minimize damage and preserve vital brain function, neurological intensive care entails detailed analysis, continuous monitoring of patient conditions and fast application of the latest research to treating conditions such as brain tumors, spinal cord injuries, hemorrhage, stroke, epilepsy and brain trauma.