Your gift will help us continue our top-notch patient care and never-ending research to find better interventions and treatments for different types of stroke, brain tumor, and related conditions.
Stroke
Barnes-Jewish Hospital is certified as a Primary Stroke Center for our exceptional efforts to foster better
stroke outcomes. We have the best “door to needle time” of peer institutions nationwide for administering stroke patients the brain-saving drug tPA—an important milestone because time is critical to reversing the damage of stroke, and can mean the difference between paralysis and recovery.
Learn more about stroke care in this video with Jin-Moo Lee, MD.
Few hospitals can match our multidisciplinary team that provides 24-hour rapid response and comprehensive stroke care, including rehabilitation and lifelong follow-up. Our
neurologists are among the best at reducing swelling, preventing infection and lung clots, and predicting complications in stroke patients.
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| Ralph Dacey, MD, Chief of Neurosurgery, in the IMRI suite |
Brain Tumor
Neurosurgeons at Barnes-Jewish perform more than 400 brain tumor procedures each year.
Our
Intraoperative MRI suite, a technology used by only a handful of hospitals worldwide, enables surgeons to perform magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests while surgery is in progress. This clearer view supports more accurate tumor removal and reduces the need for follow-up surgery.
Learn more in this video with Ralph Dacey, MD.
Exceptional care after brain tumor surgery continues in the 20-bed Barnes-Jewish Neurological/Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit. More than 1,700 patients are admitted each year to the NNICU unit, which is equipped with the most advanced brain scanning equipment available, including a dedicated PET (positron emission tomography) scanner that is critical to clinical research.
Recent Breakthroughs and Novel Research Supported by Gifts to the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation
Intraoperative MRI
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| The Neurosurgery Team |
Barnes-Jewish Hospital was able to purchase and install the
Intraoperative MRI suite with funding from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation.
Our hospital was the first IMRI center in the world to conduct an IMRI surgery on a patient who was awake—a technical feat that is critical to maintaining a patient’s speech function during tumor removal.