If you experience a brain hemorrhage, you’ll benefit from access to the latest approaches for its diagnosis and treatment by our expert, dedicated neurosurgery team.
Our multidisciplinary neurosurgery team will rely on leading-edge approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of your brain hemorrhage. The team includes expert neurosurgeons and radiologists who combine compassion and experience with advanced diagnostic and treatment technologies.
A brain hemorrhage disrupts your brain’s blood flow. This condition is brought on by certain causes or risks, and indicated by specific symptoms.
Your brain depends on proper blood flow to function properly. A brain hemorrhage—uncontrolled bleeding from a blood vessel in the brain—interrupts blood flow and can be a life-threatening event.
A brain hemorrhage or brain bleed is a medical emergency because by interrupting blood flow, it affects the brain’s functioning, which may severely limit cognition, motor function, breathing, or other basic bodily functions.
The following are common causes and risk factors of a brain hemorrhage:
Because a brain hemorrhage is a type of stroke, the symptoms are the same but usually vague at first.
A brain hemorrhage’s symptoms may include:
Other symptoms that occur suddenly may include:
Our neurosurgeons use advanced diagnostic methods to diagnose if you are having a brain hemorrhage. It is a life-threatening medical emergency that requires an immediate diagnosis to ensure proper treatment.
As soon as you arrive in the emergency room, we take your vital signs including pulse rate, breathing, and blood pressure, and also assess mental status. In many cases, the cause of brain hemorrhage is not obvious, unless there is severe head injury or trauma.
While symptoms are strong clues to a person's condition, doctors in our emergency department work with our neurosurgeons using advanced diagnostic technologies to quickly evaluate you. When possible, we review your medical history. If you’re conscious, we’ll ask you to describe your symptoms.
To diagnose the location and extent of the brain hemorrhage, we may use imaging and other diagnostic methods such as:
Immediate treatment for brain hemorrhage is essential to reduce the risk of permanent brain damage or even death.
The main goal of our emergency medicine doctors, and intensivist and experienced neurosurgeons is to stop the bleeding in your brain and prevent further symptoms due to brain compression from the hemorrhage.
Both non-surgical and surgical types of treatments are used, depending on the cause and severity of the hemorrhage and your condition.
Non-surgical treatments for brain hemorrhage include:
Surgical treatments for brain hemorrhage include:
After surgery, you may require additional therapies that include:
Recovery from a brain hemorrhage is a slow process. Your side effects will depend on the extent of the hemorrhage.
Two factors determine how well you’ll recover from a brain hemorrhage:
If you’ve had moderate or severe brain bleeding, as well as surgery, you may need weeks or months to fully recover.
