Intraoperative Monitoring for Spinal Surgery

The use of intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) can improve surgical outcomes. Although inclusion of IONM is considered standard practice in more complicated spine surgeries, there are no national-level guidelines for the usage of IONM in spine surgery. Technical advancement in IONM has increased both its sensitivity and specificity, and with a recently developed algorithmic checklist it can be more easily adopted by the surgical team in their practice.

Source: Neurologic Clinics - March 31, 2022 Category: Neurology Authors: Nitin Agarwal, Saman Shabani, Jeremy Huang, Alma Rechav Ben-Natan, Praveen V. Mummaneni Source Type: research