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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.
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Sen. Charles Schumer meets with nurses from North Shore University Hospital’s Harvey Cushing Brain Aneurysm Center at their booth at the 25th Annual Oyster Festival. From left to right: Joanne Turnier, RN, Regina Rothowski, RN and Nicole Salant, RN.
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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.
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Nicole Salant, RN, of North Shore University’s Harvey Cushing Brain Aneurysm Center, does a quick blood pressure check for Harriet Gerard, director of the Raynham Hall Museum in Oyster Bay, at the 25th Annual Oyster Festival.
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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.
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Teddy Roosevelt, (aka James W. Foot), Oyster Bay’s native son and a good sport, commemorates his 150th birthday with a blood pressure reading by Regina Rothowski, RN, of North Shore University Hospital’s Harvey Cushing Brain Aneurysm Center during Oysterfest.
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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.
Media Contact: Betty Olt 516-465-2645, bolt@nshs.edu
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