Neuroscience Services

At Scottsdale Healthcare, our vision is to provide world-class patient care. Our multidisciplinary neurosciences team composed of world-class physicians, professional nursing staff, therapy services professionals, pharmacists, nutritionists, case managers, social workers, and others, is dedicated to doing just that.

Having earned the highly coveted Magnet designation, which recognizes an elite few health care organizations for consistently providing nursing excellence and quality patient care, we offer our patients and their families an environment that enables the neurosciences team to combine the science of medicine with the art of healing, thus assuring a positive patient/family experience.

The neuroscience service line encompasses a very broad and complex set of disease processes, treatments, and physician specialty areas. The categories of services included in this service line are spine, cranial and vascular neurosurgery, neurology, neuro interventional, neuro radiosurgery and pain management. These services are provided by world-class neurosurgeons, neurologists, neurohospitalists, orthopedic spine surgeons, interventional neuro radiologists, oncologists, physiatrists, and anesthesiologists specializing in pain control.

Scottsdale Healthcare’s commitment to excellence is demonstrated by many awards and accolades, some of which include:

Level 1 Trauma Center designation by the American College of Surgeons

DNV Accredited Disease Specific Primary Stroke Center

American Stroke Association Accredited Stroke Center

Magnet Recognition awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, which is considered the gold standard of nursing excellence

For more information about our neuroscience services please call 480-882-6640.

Latest Advancements

Intracranial Infrared Fluorescence Angiography for Neurovascular Surgery -

Conventional angiography involves a series of radiographic images of the blood vessels of the head and neck. A small catheter or tube is inserted into an artery, usually in the groin. An x-ray video, known as fluoroscopy, guides the catheter through the artery to the large blood vessels that lead to the brain. A contrasting dye is inserted through the catheter into the artery, and radiographic images are taken as the contrast circulates through the arteries, capillaries and veins of the head and neck.

3-D Stereotactic Surgical Image Guidance for Both Cranial and Spine Surgery -

This procedure, called stereotaxy, uses advanced computers to locate and create a three-dimensional image of a tumor or bone anatomy. When used during surgery, the technique is called stereotactic surgery. Whereas conventional x-rays measure only two dimensions – height and width, stereotaxy adds the third dimension of depth, which enhances the neurosurgeon’s ability to map the tumor location and determine the safest way to remove it. Stereotaxy also allows the surgeon to plan trajectory, or angle of approach, to make placement of surgical implants such as spinal pedicle screws as accurate as possible.

Interventional Neuroradiological Procedures for Coiling and Embolization of Aneurysms and Other Neurovascular Lesions -

Coiling is performed by neurointerventional specialists who have expertise in treating conditions in the brain by endovascular (through the blood vessel) means. The procedure is accomplished with a catheter that is inserted into the groin and threaded up through the arteries directly to the problem site in the brain. Coils, or mesh wires, are inserted into the aneurysm to prevent the space from filling with blood and rupturing. Coiling was perfected by American-based neuroradiologist Guido Guglielmi, M.D., as detachable coils. Since Food and Drug Administration approval in 1995, coils have revolutionized endovascular treatment of cerebral aneurysms.

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