Tuesday Talks: Irrigating Intracranial Drain for Stroke

Hemorrhagic strokes cause bleeding and swelling of the brain, and are responsible for 40 percent of all stroke-related deaths. But there’s a new treatment available that can help reduce that number, it’s called an irrigating intracranial drain.

This edition of Tuesday Talks features Nicholas Brandmeir, MD, a neurosurgeon at the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, who was the first in the world to successfully perform this procedure.