Primary Stroke Center in Littleton, Colorado

Stroke Team

What is Stroke?

Rapid Response to Stroke

Interventional Neuroradiology

Care After Stroke

Community Stroke Resources

Contact the Stroke Coordinator

As a Joint Commission accredited primary stroke center we deliver a higher standard of stroke care by ensuring that stroke patients receive treatment according to nationally accepted standards and recommendations.

Littleton Adventist Hospital is proud to be a recipient of American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines^SM Stroke Bronze Performance Achievement Award recognizing our commitment and succes in implementing a higher standard of stroke care. Read more about the American Stroke Associaton Award...

Littleton Adventist Hospital Stroke Center Services

• Rapid response evaluation and treatment of all patients with stroke related symptoms.
• Interventional Neuroradiology
• Neurosurgery for hemorrhagic stroke patients.
• Education to promote stroke awareness and prevention
• Rehabilitation services
  
  Anticoagulants: Drugs that reduce the blood's clotting ability.
  Cerebral infarction: Death of part of the brain from lack of oxygen-carrying blood.
  Embolism: A clot that breaks loose and moves through the blood to the brain.
  Hemorrhagic stroke: A stroke that occurs because a blood vessel breaks open, causing blood to leak into the brain.
  Ischemic stroke: A stroke that occurs because a clot blocks a blood vessel that supplies blood to the brain.
  Occlusion: A closure or blockage of a blood vessel (a clot).
  Stroke: A brain attack that occurs because a blood vessel supplying the brain becomes obstructed or tears; a major medical emergency.
  Thrombus: A clot that stays inside an intact blood vessel.
  Transient ischemic attack: A stroke that occurs for only a few minutes when blood supply is briefly interrupted.