Neuromonitoring Carotid Endarterectomy
In the last post, I talked about an email asking for information about neuromonitoring for carotid endarterectomy surgeries. I told the emailer… “No, problem. Maybe I’ll even put a presentation together that will help you and other people reading this blog.”
Instead of posting the info like I was asked, I went on a rant about using motor evoked potentials for CEA cases.
There was even some further discussion that went on about it on my linkedin account (just scroll down and look for my post about it).
Now, about 3-4 weeks later, I finally put together some presentation material that should help out, or at least give you a head start. It took way longer than I had planned, so if you find this useful, please let me know. Either leave a comment, scroll down and rate it 10 stars, post it somewhere like facebook or linkedin, etc. If enough people find it useful, then I might do some more in the future. If not, then there is no reason for me to put in the time that I did.
Anyways, the request was to help them make a presentation for vascular surgeon to try to drum up some business. They wanted to let them know the benefits of neuromonitoring carotid endarterectomy procedures. While other modalities like transcranial doppler, cerebral oximetry and stump pressure are commonly used, the request was for EEG and SSEP.
So I broke it down into three sections.
- What is the basis of neuromonitoring for carotid endarterectomy procedures (using EEG and SSEP), and how does it work
- Is it of benefit
- Examples of how using neuromonitoring during CEA can assist the surgeon that is impossible without it
There’s plenty of other ways to present this, so here’s a couple templates for you to play with.
Here’s a scribd presentation…
Neuromonitoring Carotid Endarterectomy
Here’s a video for monitoring carotid endarterectomy surgeries…
Here’s my prezi for IONM CEA cases…
And here’s the transcripts to the prezi above…
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