News from the CNI Stroke Center
Join CNI Stroke Center and the Highlands Garden Café for Dinner to Benefit CNI Programs
 The Colorado Neurological Institute Stroke Center
and
Highlands Garden Café
invite you to dinner
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
at 3927 W. 32nd Avenue
Denver, CO
Reservations are recommended.
Make your reservations between the hours of 5:00pm - 9:00pm to participate.
 Please call 303.458.5920 or visit
www.highlandsgardencafe.com/
Look for the reservation link at the bottom of the page.
Highlands Garden Café, one of Denver’s premier restaurants, will donate 25% of the evening’s food sales to The Colorado Neurological Institute to benefit the CNI Stroke Center located on the Swedish Medical Center campus. Included in the CNI Stroke Center are The NeuroHealth Center and the CO-DOC Telemedicine Program
Colorado Neurological Institute & Swedish Medical
Center Announce Colorado's First Interactive Telemedicine Network
Specialty physicians reach across Colorado to save lives
Donor Funds First Installation at Vail Valley Medical Center
January 25, 2006 (ENGLEWOOD/DENVER) - Imagine technology that
allows a physician to examine a patient hundreds of miles away - reading
their vital signs on bedside computers, examining the pupils of their
eyes and talking back-n-forth in real time - all through a tiny laptop-mounted
camera, a portable suitcase-sized computer and the Internet.
CO-DOC, the Colorado Digital Online Consultant, is a breakthrough program
coordinated by the Colorado Neurological Institute in conjunction with
Swedish Medical Center and Blue Sky Neurology that will now allow physicians
to provide lifesaving exams and treatments to stroke patients across
Colorado...read the
full article
Read more about telemedicine in an article by Dr. Chris Fanale,
published in the Spring 2006 CNI REVIEW medical journal: Telemedicine
in Treating Acute Stroke 
 CNI
REVIEW Medical Journal Features Stroke
The Spring 2006 issue of CNI's medical journal, CNI REVIEW,
is dedicated to discussing the issues related to stroke. Read
this issue online now.
CNI and Swedish Medical Center Enroll Patients
in Clinical Trial Examining Recovery from Stroke
As the first JCAHO-certified Stroke Center in Colorado, Swedish Medical Center and physicians at the
Colorado Neurological Institute (CNI) have been approved to participate
in a pivotal clinical study to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of
investigational (cortical stimulation) therapy for recovery of hand/arm
function in survivors of stroke. The study, known as EVEREST, is a randomized,
multi-center study comparing the effects of cortical stimulation plus
rehabilitation therapy to rehabilitation therapy alone. Cortical stimulation
therapy involves the precise delivery of low levels of electricity to
the surface of the brain via an implanted stimulator system.
Who Qualifies?
The EVEREST study focuses on people age 21 years or older who have
had an ischemic stroke at least four months prior to screening and suffered
resulting weakness in one hand and/or arm.
Stroke patients who would like to receive more information or enroll
in the trial should contact the EVEREST study call center at 888-546-9779.
New CNI Brain Aneurysm Support Group
New services are being offered by Colorado Neurological
Institute (CNI) for patients and their families that have been diagnosed
with a Brain Aneurysm. We now have printed educational materials available,
from the Brain Aneurysm Foundation, explaining brain aneurysms, the methods
of treatment and the recovery process. In addition, a support group for
brain aneurysm survivors and their caregivers will be meeting monthly
at Swedish Medical Center to provide information and education on a variety
of topics of interest related to aneurysms. The support group meetings
will also provide an opportunity for reassurance and personal exchange
between survivors and caregivers.
Go to the Brain Aneurysm page
CNI Brain Aneurysm Support
Group for Survivors and Caregivers NEW
501 E. Hampden Ave.
2nd Floor Conference Rooms (Pine B & C)
Swedish Medical Center
6:30 – 8:00 pm
Third Monday every month
Peer Contact and Support
NEW
Carol Gill, an aneurysm survivor and her husband Chuck Smith, founders
of the Colorado Brain Aneurysm Foundation Support Group, are available
to share their personal experience and offer support. They can be reached
at 303-779-1821 or bafcolorado@msn.com
 Swedish
Medical Center's Primary Stroke Center
Earns Accreditation of Joint Commission
By demonstrating compliance with the Joint Commission on Accreditation
of Healthcare Organization's national standards for health care quality
and safety, Swedish Medical Center's Primary Stroke Center has earned
the Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval.
InTouch Newsletter Focuses on Stroke
Download this PDF version of the CNI In Touch newsletter from Spring
2004, which focuses on CNI's Stroke Program and the new CNI NeuroHealth
Center for stroke risk assessment. You will need Acrobat Reader on your
computer to view this file. Get
Acrobat Reader from Adobe site
Test Your Stroke Risk
 How
likely are you to have a stroke in the next decade? You can find
out using a simple Personal Stroke Risk Calculator, developed by
Dr. Don Smith, medical director of the CNI Stroke Program. By entering
data such as age and weight and answering yes or no to certain health
questions, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet determines your relative
risk of stroke along with a printable graphic.
Go to calculator |
SPIN Project
Swedish Medical Center has been selected as a site in the American Academy
of Neurology (AAN) Stroke Practice Improvement Network (SPIN) program.
This goal of this program is to focus on certain aspects of stroke care
which enable hospitals to evaluate the quality of care they are providing
for their stroke patients. |
