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Emergency medical technicians transported Mr. Parish to the emergency department at nearby University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro. Often, when a cerebral artery ruptures, it hemorrhages blood into the brain, with devastating consequences—and indeed, a CT scan revealed “a brain full of blood,” says Rosemary Parish. Her husband had suffered a lifethreatening hemorrhagic stroke and required the most advanced care. Fortunately, the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJ) was only 20 minutes away.
r. Gupta says I won the lottery—three times in a row. We beat the odds, surviving three crises—the aneurysm, the hydrocephalus, and the vasospasms—making a complete recovery,” says Herman Parish, below with his wife, Rosemary.
After recovery, Herman Parish completed Amelia Bedelia Cleans Up, dedicating the book to his doctors, Gaurav Gupta, MD, assistant professor of neurosurgery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (left in photo at right), and Sudipta Roychowdhury, MD, clinical assistant professor of radiology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and director of interventional neuroradiology, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (far right in photo at right).
The Comprehensive RWJ Stroke Center: Extraordinary People Offering Exceptional Care
situation as complex as Herman’s requires the resources, both human and technological, of a dedicated, multidisciplinary center like the one at RWJ,” says neurosurgeon Gaurav Gupta, MD, assistant professor of neurosurgery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr. Gupta is the director of cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgery and the New Jersey Brain Aneurysm and AVM Program, a partner6 Robert Wood Johnson I MEDICINE
ship between the medical school and the hospital. The Joint Commission–certified stroke center offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary team led by two outstanding specialists in brain aneurysm treatment: Dr. Gupta and Sudipta Roychowdhury, MD, clinical assistant professor of radiology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and director of interventional neuroradiology, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. By the time the ambulance arrived at the Emergency Department, Mr. Parish was in a coma, and his brain was beginning to shut down. A sophisticated 3-D CT angiogram
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