How We're Here for You

Getting medical help within the first few hours of a stroke is critical. NCH’s NeuroInterventional Surgery/Stroke Program provides new stroke intervention procedures so you can get the advanced care you need right in your own community.

Designated as a Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission, NCH is one of only two hospitals in the northwest region to offer neurointerventional surgery procedures. These new procedures can significantly diminish, if not reverse, the effects of your stroke and prevent long-term disability.

NCH can offer these advanced, minimally invasive intervention techniques thanks to the recent addition of Dr. Ali Shaibani, MD, Director of NeuroInterventional Surgery, to the NCH medical staff. Dr. Shaibani's expertise is broadening NCH’s ability to provide care for stroke victims as well as other patients with vascular diseases of the brain and spine.

In addition to stroke treatment, advanced minimally invasive procedures are available for many neurological issues.

Experience the Difference at NCH

Following the guidelines set by the American Stroke Association, two state-of-the-art interventions can restore the blood flow to the affected area of your brain after a stroke. If your condition is appropriate for this treatment, the following interventions will be provided to you.

Within the first three hours: You will be given an injection of IV tPA medication – a tissue plasminogen activator—to break up the clot that caused your stroke.

Between three and eight hours: Neurointerventional minimally invasive techniques will be used to locate, dissolve or remove your clot.

Expertise combined with compassion

• This program is directed by Ali Shaibani,MD, a neurointerventional radiologist who specializes in interventional imaging techniques involving the brain. He is just one of a handful of local experts using interventional services to treat stroke victims.
• Emergency medicine specialists collaborate with neurointerventional surgery, neurological surgery, neurology, critical care, ENT and vascular surgery to provide you with the latest stroke treatment options

Primary Stroke Center

• NCH is a Designated Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission
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