by Joe Hartman | Jun 26, 2013 | Neuromonitoring Training
Intraoperative Somatosensory Evoked Potentials With our patient population getting older (the motor conduction slows by 0.4–1.7 m/s per decade after 20 years and the sensory by 2–4 m/s), overweight (conduction velocity of motor and sensory nerves decreases as BMI... 
by Joe Hartman | Jun 10, 2013 | Neuromonitoring Training
Glioma Surgery… Is Intraoperative Monitoring Wort It? Glioma tumors in the brain (which is a common malignant brain tumor) provides a intraoperative monitoring conundrum for the surgeon. Typically, can we offer the surgeon the ability to better localize the... 
by Joe Hartman | May 24, 2013 | Neuromonitoring Training
Intraoperative Nerve Action Potentials (NAP) Optimization Intraoperative nerve action potentials allow testing of the peripheral nerve through physiological means. A surgeon uses the information you give them from the NAP to assess nerve damage, assess the degree of... 
by Joe Hartman | May 22, 2013 | Neuromonitoring Training
Spinal Tumors That Need Dorsal Column Mapping Intraoperative neurophysiological mapping of dorsal columns isn’t really one of the neuromonitoring community’s “bread and butter” cases. Not that there isn’t anything of benefit we offer the... 
by Joe Hartman | May 10, 2013 | IOM Jobs, Neuromonitoring Training
How To Adapt Your Résumé To Land Neuromonitoring Jobs… If you’ve been a neuromonitoring professional for some time, chances are you’ve been tempted to check out some other neuromonitoring jobs at some point. I mean, the grass is always greener,... 
by Joe Hartman | May 4, 2013 | Neuromonitoring Training
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...
