Neurosurgical

A hospital nurse had told me that it was good in neurosurgical intensive-care units to leave the television turned on in an unconscious patient's room, preferably to a channel on which the patient might recognize some of the voices. ❋ Unknown (2002)

When I can't help any more, I call my neurosurgical colleagues at St. Jude's. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is only when a diagnosis is made that we will know if Harry needs immediate neurosurgical intervention or if treatment with radiation or chemotherapy is first called for instead. ❋ Md Meghan Maclean Weir (2011)

At age nine he founded Children Helping Children and began headlining with symphony orchestras to perform benefit Concerts for a Cure at major concert halls across the country to raise money for children needing neurosurgical and neurological care and has since raised millions for neurological research and pediatric hospital programs. ❋ Stephanie March (2010)

And all of Montefiore's ICUs—for medical, surgical, neurosurgical and cardiothoracic patients—report to the critical-care department, not individual medical services, facilitating patient flow and minimizing turf wars. ❋ Melinda Beck (2011)

Fergus Bannon, when not performing neurosurgical interventions with the aid of a hacksaw, dowsing rod and amphetamine-soaked surgical mask, has been known to write for publications such as Interzone, Territories, West Coast Magazine and Shipbuilding. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

Combining all the medical, surgical, cardiothoracic and neurosurgical ICUs into a central critical-care department is still unusual among hospitals of Montefiore's size. ❋ Melinda Beck (2011)

Brian Pasley and his colleagues recorded neural representations of speech sounds directly from the brains of conscious neurosurgical patients and used a computational model to reconstruct them accurately enough for individual words to be recognizable. ❋ Unknown (2012)

The legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan is no longer the graveyard, but the neurosurgical unit, the orthopedic ward, the neurology treatment center and the PTSD clinic. ❋ Ron Glasser (2011)

It is a restoration of normality for the patient and those around the patient, said Nader Sanai, director of neurosurgical oncology at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Direct electrical stimulation of a specific part of the brain can enhance spatial memory in conscious neurosurgical patients, according to a small new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. ❋ Unknown (2012)