Neurosurgery Comanagement Service

Quinn Cheng, MD Medical Director of Neurosurgery Comanagement Service

The Comanagement with Neurosurgery Service (CNS) manages acute and chronic medical problems in patients hospitalized on UCSF Medical Center’s busy adult Neurological Surgery service.  Going beyond the role of a traditional consultant, the CNS hospitalists take direct responsibility for the medical care of these patients, and form an integral and vital component of their care team.

CNS hospitalists screen all neurosurgery patients at the time of admission for conditions that increase the risk of medical complications.  The hospitalists proactively round on these high-risk patients, ordering tests, treatments, and subspecialty consultation as needed to prevent complications, or address them at the earliest possible time.  The CNS service also performs urgent preoperative medical evaluations and trouble-shoots medical problems.  To ensure that these patients receive the highest quality and safest care, the CNS hospitalists communicate and coordinate their efforts with a multidisciplinary team of physicians, pharmacists, nurses, rehabilitation therapists, and case managers.

Questions about the Comanagement with Neurosurgery Service can be directed to Quinn Cheng at quinny@medicine.ucsf.edu.