In this section...

  1. Acute Physiotherapy
  2. Cheshire and Merseyside Rehabilitation Network (CMRN)
  3. Chiari malformation and syringomyella
  4. Cognitive neurology
  5. Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
  6. Dietetic Services
  7. Electroencephalogram (EEG)
  8. Endoscopic (keyhole) spinal surgery
  9. Epilepsy
  10. Epilepsy specialist nurse service
  11. Epilepsy surgery
  12. Essential tremor - Ultrasound thalamotomy
  13. Evoked potentials (EP)
  14. Facial pain
  15. Fluroscopy
  16. Functional Neurological Disorders Service (FNDS)
  17. Headache service
  18. Hydrocephalus, CSF disorders and spina bifida
  19. Infection prevention and control
  20. Integrated Neurology Nurse Service
  21. Interventional Radiology
  22. Major Trauma service
  23. Motor neurone disease
  24. Multiple sclerosis
  25. Multiple sclerosis (MS) nurse service
  26. Nerve conduction studies (NCS) and Electromyography (EMG)
  27. Neuroanaesthesia and Critical Care
  28. Neurogenetic disorders
  29. Neurological long-term conditions OT service
  30. Neurological Long Term Conditions Physiotherapy Team (LTC)
  31. Neurology
  32. Neuromodulation for Pain and Pelvic Floor Instability
  33. Neuromuscular disorders
  34. Neuromyelitis optica
  35. Neuro-Oncology Department
  36. Neuropathic pain (nerve pain)
  37. Neurophysiology Department
  38. Neuropsychiatry
  39. Neuropsychology Department
  40. Neuropsychology inpatient service
  41. Neuroradiology
  42. Neuroscience Laboratories
  43. Neurosurgery
  44. Neurovascular surgery and intervention
  45. Pain Management Programme
  46. Pain medicine
  47. Palliative care pain
  48. Parkinson's disease Nurse Specialists
  49. Pre-operative Assessment Team
  50. Physiotherapy botulinum toxin service
  51. Rehabilitation
  52. Research
  53. Respiratory Physiotherapy Team
  54. Speech and Language Therapy
  55. Spinal surgery
  56. Surgical management of chronic pain
  57. Surgical, Medical, Acute Response Team (SMART)
  58. Theatres
  59. Therapies Department
  60. Tissue viability
  61. Trauma Therapy Team

Neurovascular surgery and intervention

 

The neurovascular surgery and intervention service treats intracranial conditions involving diseases of cerebral blood vessels. The team predominantly treats acute patients but also treats elective patients. The greatest proportion of the service is treating patients with acute sub-arachnoid haemorrhages from ruptured aneurysms.

Other conditions treated include arteriovenous malformations, dural arteriovenous fistulas, incidental and symptomatic aneurysms, intracerebral haemorrhage, subarachnoid haemorrhage without a cause being found and cavernoma.

Support is also provided to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital (such conditions are very rare in children).

The service consists of neurosurgeons, neuro-interventional neuroradiology consultants, neurovascular secretary, specialist radiographers, Theatres Department, an advanced nurse practitioner and nurse specialists.

Patient management and care is a multidisciplinary approach with a weekly multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting, which can be requested/accessed by discussing with the medical team.

The neurovascular neurology service can also be closely involved in cases where surgery isn’t required.

Inpatient and ongoing care is supported by a multidisciplinary team of therapists and the Cheshire and Merseyside Rehabilitation Network.

A ‘Road to Recovery Programme’, with input from the medical, nursing and therapy team and support from the Brain Haemorrhage Support Group, aims to support patients following aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage.

 

Research

The service participates in a variety of national trials, including ARUBA, STASH, HELPS, TEAM, carotid artery stenting vs endarterectomy and CARE studies in hyponatraemia in sub-arachnoid haemorrhage.

 

Referral information

Emergency inter-hospital referrals can be made via the neurosurgical registrar via The Walton Centre switchboard or via https://orion.net 

Routine and urgent referrals can be made via GP surgeries.

 

Contact information

  • 0151 556 3352
  • Neurovascular Nurse Specialist telephone (answer phone) offers a daily non-urgent call back service and can be contacted on 0151 556 3325. (Calls are not always answered the same day)
  • Neurovascular secretary to consultants 0151 556 3352
     

Useful links

Cavernoma Alliance UK

Brain Haemorrhage Support Group

Access to work

 

Patient leaflets

Brain aneurysms and screening

Brain arteriovenous malformation (AVM)

Carotid and vertebral artery stenting

Cerebral cavernomas

Cranioplasty

Dural Arteriovenous Fistula of the Brain (DAVF)

Elective endovascular occlusion of brain aneurysm

Intracerebral haematoma

Intraventricular haemorrhage

Mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischaemic stroke

Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS)

Subarachnoid haemorrhage

Subarachnoid haemorrhage no cause found

Surgery to remove a brain cavernoma

Surgical clipping of a brain aneurysm