Allegheny General Hospital’s Department of Neurology places a strong emphasis on traditional clinical evaluations based on the patient’s history and neurological signs, as well as communication with the patient and family concerning the disease process. Sophisticated technological capabilities are available to support traditional patient evaluation.

The hospital maintains an average daily census of 12 neurological patients, and nine full-time staff neurologists attend to an average of 30 patients on a consultative basis. Annually, the department treats more than 7,000 outpatients and provides more than 1,500 inpatient consultations, including 700 pediatric cases.

Eight monitored maximum-observation neurology beds and 42 other telemetry-equipped beds

are available for patient care. The department’s diagnostic capabilities include EEG, EMG, evoked potentials, nerve conduction velocity studies and continuous video-EEG monitoring.

Among the services offered by the Department of Neurology are inpatient and outpatient clinical programs focusing on epilepsy, stroke, multiple sclerosis, movement disorders, neuromuscular disorders and neuro-oncology.