Central emergency room (ZNA)

We would like to introduce you to neurological emergency care on this page.

If you suspect a neurological emergency (e.g. stroke, epileptic seizure, meningitis, loss of consciousness, acute attack of multiple sclerosis, severe/sudden onset of headache) or other life-threatening emergencies, please call the EMERGENCY NUMBER 112. If you are not sure whether the emergency is potentially life-threatening, call the emergency services on 112.

In acute emergencies, you can present yourself at our Central Emergency Room (ZNA) at any time without having to make an appointment. In the case of serious acute illnesses or injuries, you will usually be referred by the ambulance service or the emergency physician.

The MHH Central Emergency Department is located in the entrance area of the MHH, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover. It is best reached via the access ramp to the upper parking deck (from the direction of Carl-Neuberg-Str.).

Further general information can be found on the MHH ZNA website:

https://www.mhh.de/pflege/stationen-und-funktionsbereiche/zna

Neurological Emergency Room/Emergency Medicine

Any acute neurological illness that requires immediate diagnosis or treatment is treated in the emergency room. In recent years, neurological Emergency Medicine has become one of the three most important areas in hospital emergency departments - alongside surgery and internal medicine. This is also reflected in the figures: the proportion of neurological patients in the emergency room is between 20 and 30 percent of all emergency patients. The Department of Neurology therefore has a continuous medical presence in the emergency room, together with a nursing team that has many years of experience in treating emergency patients. The cooperation in this team is characterized by reliability and trust, and allows for coordinated and fast working hand in hand.

Neurological emergencies are characterized by the sudden onset of symptoms and the severity of the symptoms. Accordingly, treatment of the symptoms does not need to be delayed. Typical neurological emergencies are patients with acute strokes, acute or severe paralysis, numbness, impaired consciousness, acute epileptic seizures, severe acute headaches or an acute attack of multiple sclerosis.

What is the procedure in the emergency room?

Patients are treated according to the severity of their illness, so that less ill patients may have to wait longer. During the initial nursing assessment (triage), the specialty and the urgency of treatment are determined. The medical urgency and sequence of treatment is determined for each new patient arriving at the hospital and adjusted on an ongoing basis. Life-threatening emergencies always have absolute priority.

The neurological examination includes a medical interview, a clinical neurological and physical examination, often a blood sample, as well as further examinations as required by the clinical picture (e.g. imaging (computer tomography, magnetic resonance imaging), ECG, EEG, ultrasound diagnostics, lumbar puncture).

Depending on the admission findings and necessity, further examinations are carried out directly from the emergency department, inpatient admission for further diagnostics and treatment, or, if necessary, interdisciplinary co-evaluation and further treatment, for example by colleagues from neurosurgery, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology or psychiatry.

In cooperation with the Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, all modern diagnostic and interventional procedures are available around the clock for acute care (computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, angiography). It is precisely for these options that patients are transferred from other hospitals or the region where these facilities are not available, or are not continuously available.

Patients with life-threatening illnesses or severe loss of consciousness are monitored and cared for by physicians from the anesthesiology and intensive care departments.

You can reach the ZNA by telephone on

+49(0)511-532-2052

Contact person for neurology in the ZNA:

Dr. med. Anna-Lena BoeckDeputy head of the ZNA

Specialist in neurologyboeck.anna-lena@mh-hannover.de