NEUROSCIENCES
Chesapeake Regional Medical Center offers comprehensive diagnostic services and treatment options for addressing neurological conditions. Patients can expect courteous professional treatment in a comfortable setting. Although there are numerous outpatient treatment options, rest assured that should your treatment require an overnight stay, all of our rooms have private beds.
Chesapeake Regional Medical Center features the latest ground-breaking technology, two in-house neurosurgeons and a highly specialized neurosurgical operating team equipped to diagnose and treat the entire spectrum of neurosurgical disorders, including:
Brain
- Tumors
- Trauma
- Aneurysms
- Arteriovenous malformations
- Hydrocephalus
Spine / Spinal cord
- Tumors
- Trauma-fractures
- Herniated disks
- Spondylolisthesis
- Chronic pain
We are state-of-the-art
Chesapeake Regional Medical Center was the first civilian hospital in Hampton Roads to use a computerized navigation system, a powerful tool that uses an advanced computer and infrared optics to ensure neurosurgical procedures are more precise and safe than ever. Meet our on-staff physicians.
Dr. Nasrollah Fatehi and Dr. Eric Schubert are both experienced, highly trained neurosurgeons who are as compassionate as they are committed to getting their patients on the road to recovery as quickly as possible. With only 3,200 board-certified neurosurgeons nationwide, Chesapeake Regional Medical Center is fortunate to have two of them to serve you.
“We have gone through a time when operating on the brain was a scary situation, and you didn’t know whether the patient was going to make it or not. Now, I operate on some of my patients and send them home 48 hours later,” said Dr. Nasrollah Fatehi, board-certified neurosurgeon and former chairman of the Department of Surgery at Chesapeake General Hospital. "It’s not so different from abdominal surgery.”
“Smaller incisions result in shorter recovery times and fewer complications," said Dr. Eric Schubert, a neurosurgeon who joined CGH in August. "More accurate surgery means a surgeon can remove a tumor without affecting healthy tissue surrounding it," said Dr. Schubert.
CGH is also equipped with a state-of-the-art in-house MRI, the latest generation CT-scan, The Stealth System, advanced microscopes, and round-the-clock anesthesiologists, hospitalists and critical care physicians.
Operating . . . as a team
But it takes more than expensive technology and experienced well-trained physicians to have superior neurosurgical services. It’s equally important that the surgical team - from the nurse to the technician - is all well-trained and accustomed to working together. This truely is a case where the whole team is greater than the sum of its parts.
At Chesapeake Regional Medical Center, a designated neurosurgery team of two nurses, a surgical assistant, an operating room technician and a group of anesthesiologists who work exclusively at our medical center make up the hospital’s own neurolosurgical “dream team.”
The benefit of having a specialized neurosurgical operating room team is that it increases physician comfort and staff proficiency with less anesthesia time and less surgery time. It’s a better outcome for the patient ultimately. Everyone on this team has 15 to 20 years experience.
Call: 757-547-9005 or 757-460-0455