1. neuroscience
CAPABILITIES
3635 Vista at Grand
St. Louis, Missouri 63110
www.sluhospital.com
To refer an inpatient to
Saint Louis University Hospital,
call the Inpatient Referral Line
at 866-491-0858
To refer an outpatient to a
SLUCare physician, call the
Physician Access Line at
800-637-5463

2. Image-guided/Stealth Head & Neck Cancer
Surgery Treatment
SLU Hospital neurosurgeons have More than 400 people seek
the intra-operative imaging treatment for head and neck
technology to perform image-guided cancer at Saint Louis University
stereotactic surgery. Advantages to Hospital Cancer Center each year.
the patient who needs brain surgery Each patient receives state-of-the-art
The Technology. The Talent. The Treatments. to remove a large tumor include: treatment as well as rehabilitation
I more precise surgical planning and prevention services that are
I smaller incisions tailored to his or her needs by a
I less-invasive excisions for team of specialists. The team works
improved patient outcomes closely with patients and their
I less restriction of caregivers to educate and create
surgical access than a plan of treatment that involves
frame-based the mind, body and spirit.
procedures
I less patient The Neuro-intensive
discomfort Critical Care Unit
I less preparation
This inpatient unit provides
time
special care for patients with
neurological and neurosurgical
The Souers Stroke Institute disorders. Once the patient’s
Saint Louis University Hospital is condition has been stabilized, the
home to one of only three JCAHO- physician teams meet daily to further
certified Primary Stroke Centers in evaluate the diagnosis, management,
the St. Louis region. As the only rehabilitation and prognosis. Nurse
Level I Trauma Center in Missouri specialists, trained in neuro-patient
and Illinois, it also is a preferred management, provide assistance
facility by local emergency medical for patients and their loved ones
services transporting stroke patients. through the entire process of
Through the hospital’s Code Stroke recovery.
program, patients are able to begin
treatment before they reach the
emergency department.

3. The Technology and the Talent
Saint Louis University Hospital has made a great investment
in neuroscience technology to ensure that physicians and their
patients have access to diagnostic and treatment technology
through their continuum of care.
MEG Intraoperative MRI Angiography suite 64-Slice “Time of Flight” CyberKnife Vagal nerve stimulation
Magnetoencephalography allows Intraoperative MRI (iMRI), used A third angiography suite at Phillips PET/CT SLU Hospital has the only SLUCare psychiatrists at Saint Louis
for mapping of brain activity, which during brain surgery, allows SLU Hospital includes the latest Saint Louis University Hospital is CyberKnife in the St. Louis region. University Hospital have been
has many diagnostic and treatment neurosurgeons to take a complete technology specifically designed one of only two Beta sites in the The technology applies pinpoint involved in the research and
indications. Patients with epilepsy, scan of the brain during a procedure. to combine the lowest possible United States for this diagnostic radiation to malignant and benign development of this innovative
arteriovenous malformations or This imaging usually takes place radiation dose with a high imaging equipment, making it the only brain tumors and vascular therapy for treatment-resistant
brain lesions stand to benefit from after a patient’s surgery is quality for patients with vascular hospital in a 500-mile radius to malformations. At SLU Hospital, depression. A vagal nerve stimulator
this technology. There are just a few “completed,”to determine whether problems of the brain and own and operate this powerful it also is used to treat extracranial is implanted under the collar bone
dozen MEGs currently in the United all of a tumor was successfully surrounding tissues. The system diagnostic technology. By combining tumors and lesions of the spine, and has leads that run to the vagal
States, and Saint Louis University removed, or to see if any other brain offers sophisticated imaging computed tomography (CT) and lung, liver, prostate and pancreas. nerve in the neck. The device emits
Hospital has the only one in a tissue appears abnormal. By allowing capabilities, allowing the physician positron emission tomography, a Patients have benefited from the electrical pulses to stimulate the
200-mile radius. the surgeon to scan the brain while to provide faster, more accurate PT/CT scanner gives physicians a system’s precision and flexibility, brain. It has been used for and is
still in the operating room, the diagnoses. A further benefit of the way to accurately merge two distinct as well as the ease and comfort of FDA-approved to treat epilepsy,
chance that an entire tumor is new system is its soft-tissue imaging radiologic images into one image of the treatment process compared as well.
removed increases, helping improve capability based on the latest a patient’s entire body. This allows to similar modalities.
patient outcomes. This technology is innovation for C-arm angiography for greater diagnostic accuracy
available in the St. Louis region only systems. This enables physicians to than is possible with either
at Saint Louis University Hospital. perform angiographic computed technology alone.
tomography during the procedure.

4. The Treatments
Saint Louis University Hospital is the only Level I Trauma
Center designated for both Missouri and Illinois. Highly
skilled in treating patients with the most complex illnesses and
injuries, our physicians, nurses and other health professionals
are at their best when it’s critical .
The Center for The Greater Midwest
Skull Base Surgery Epilepsy Treatment Center
With a special combination of neuroscience The SLUCare specialists at the Saint Through a comprehensive program
technology and expertise, Saint Louis Louis University Hospital Center for of diagnostic services, treatment,
University Hospital is one of the nation’s leading
Skull Base Surgery are highly trained education and research, a
we call it our
BRAIN TRUST
and experienced neurosurgeons and multidisciplinary epilepsy team
hospitals in the diagnosis and treatment of brain otolaryngologists, plastic surgeons offers inpatient and outpatient
and ophthalmic surgeons. They are services for children, adolescents
injuries, diseases and disorders. equipped with advanced image- and adults who are experiencing
guided surgical navigation systems seizure disorders or epilepsy.
and specially designed surgical suites Diagnostic procedures performed
with integrated endoscopic tools. may include:
With their training and tools, they I Continuous audio-visual/EEG
can reach deep inside the brain to telemetry monitoring
remove tumors and lesions once I EEG source imaging to uncover
considered untreatable. structural brain abnormalities
I SPECT imaging showing the
region of the brain
Over the course of five causing seizures
noninvasive CyberKnife I PET Scan
radiosurgery treatments that
caused no side effects, the After diagnostic tests are performed,
tumor in this young patient’s some patients may be eligible for
epilepsy surgery. When indicated,
brain (top image) was
surgery is performed using advanced
eradicated (as seen in the
stereotactic techniques to resect the
bottom image taken six seizure focus. The goal is complete
months after treatment) control of seizures.
without exposing normal
tissue to dangerous amounts
of radiation.

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