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Article Date: 11/21/2008

North Shore Nurses Educate Oyster Festival Goers about Brain Aneurysms
Nurses from North Shore University Hospital’s (NSUH) Harvey Cushing Institutes of Neuroscience Brain Aneurysm Center took to the streets this past weekend at the 25th Annual Oyster Festival in Oyster Bay, offering blood pressure screenings and educational information to festival goers to raise awareness about the life-threatening condition and stroke.

The nurses – Nicole Salant, Joanne Turnier and Regina Rothowski – were joined by David Chalif, MD, chief of neurovascular surgery at NSUH and co-director of the Harvey Cushing Brain Aneurysm Center, who enthusiastically greeted festival goers at their booth, which was conveniently located near front entrance of the festival. Approximately 200,000 people passed the NSUH booth – the only hospital exhibiting at the three-day event – on their way to the waterfront to enjoy a day of music, crafts, rides, seafood and tall ships.

The Brain Aneurysm Center is one of the largest, most comprehensive centers in the New York metropolitan area to offer diagnosis and multimodality treatments for brain aneurysm or sub-arachnoid hemorrhage (ruptured aneurysm), which is a life-threatening neurosurgical emergency. NSUH provides minimally invasive treatment options, including endovascular coiling and microsurgical clipping. NSUH is also home to the largest neurosurgical intensive care units on Long Island.

Each year in the United States some 30,000 to 50,000 individuals will suffer a ruptured aneurysm. One-third die before they reach the hospital emergency room; another third are admitted in a neurologically compromised condition; among those who recover, a certain percentage are disabled by stroke.

For more information, contact the Harvey Cushing Brain Aneurysm Center at (516) 562-3815 or (516) 562-3021.

Website Address: http://www.northshorelij.com/template.cfm?xyzpdqabc=0&id=204&action=detail&ref=1106

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