Attention Neuromonitoring Professionals! Here’s How To Kill The Medicare G0453 Code
The G0453 Code ATTENTION: This Needs To Be Handled By 9/2/2014 (EDIT: Action time is over to kill the G0453, but still worth the read) Neuromonitoring professionals have been waiting to see how Medicare’s new G code (G0453) is going to affect the way we deliver our...
Roc vs. Succ: How To Safely Negotiate With Anesthesia…
Muscle Relaxants And Neurophysiological Monitoring So you want to tell anesthesia they can't use muscle relaxant on this case? You're bound to get a wide ranges of responses, from acknowledgement, dirty looks and maybe even a full blown temper tantrum. It's helpful to...
In-House Or Contractual Neuromonitoring Company: Where To Work?
IOM Jobs: In-House Or With A Contractual Neuromonitoring Company: Pros And Cons With the amount of people looking to get into neuromonitoring, and some of the larger companies slowing down their hiring till the dust settles on these billing issues, it seems like most...
Neuromonitoring Job: Preparing For The Interview
Interviewing For A Neuromonitoring Job If you got the call for an interview for a neuromonitoring job, then you've already wowed them with your killer IONM résumé. Now comes the part that everyone love... selling yourself without sounding like a braggart, and then...
Direct Motor Evoked Potentials Using Surface Electrodes: Pros and Cons
Direct Motor Evoked Potentials Continuing on from the post about intraoperative monitoring for gliomas (and trying my best not to ramble on too much in this post), I'd like to discuss some pros and cons to using a surface electrode strip as an anode directly on the...
7 Reasons To Love Sugammadex For Neurophysiological Monitoring
Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring With Sugammadex Let me start off by saying this... I have no experience with the use of Sugammadex during neurophysiological monitoring. The drug was denied FDA clearance in the USA in 2008, so maybe some UK readers can chime...