The NSU team observes patients’ minute-to-minute progress with advanced monitoring equipment, including:

• Intracranial pressure monitoring – provides continuous information about pressures within the brain
  
  
• Brain tissue oxygenation monitoring – measures the amount of oxygen that is being delivered to brain tissue
  
  
• Cerebral blood flow monitoring - measures the amount of blood flow going to the brain
  
  
• Transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasonography – has a variety of uses including, detecting blocked arteries in the brain, intraoperative monitoring, and measurement of dynamic cerebrovascular responses
  
  
• Continuous video EEG monitoring – a specialized form of EEG testing that allows physicians to learn more about seizures by viewing them directly
  
  
• CT angiography – a CT scan that uses intravenous contrast to show all the blood vessels inside the brain
  
  
• CT perfusion – to measure blood flow in the brain with a CT scanner
  
  
• MRI diffusion imaging – shows area of brain tissue that is damaged
  
  
• MRI perfusion imaging – shows blood flow and can estimate weather damaged tissue is still salvageable with therapy
  
  
• Positron Emission Tomography (PET) – a form of brain imaging that shows brain metabolism