The Erlanger Stroke Team

The stroke team is made up of physicians representing several specialties that work in concert to provide the most comprehensive care available. Among others, a typical stroke team includes neurohospitalists, neurointerventioinalists, neurosurgeons, and a myriad of support personnel.

Neurohospitalists

Comprehensive follow-up and treatment, ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage

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Neurointerventionalists

A subspecialty of neuroradiology in which minimally invasive therapy can be effected by advancing various devices within a blood vessel to a point of a previously identified lesion–eg, an intracranial aneurysm. Learn more.

Neurosurgeons

Aneurysms and brain vascular disorders, brain and spinal tumors, Spina Bifida, Chiari malformation, tethered spinal cord, hydrocephalus, skull defects, back pain, blood vessel malformations in the brain, carpal tunnel syndrome, ulnar nerve entrapment