How To Best Use Spectral Analysis and Bandpass Filters In The O.R.
Tools of the Neurophysiologist – Spectral Analysis and Bandpass Filters (Joe's notes: This guest post is written by Tom Epplin-Zapf on a topic that might be considered one of the field's Achilles heel (or at least complaints from people after taking the CNIM has me to...
Anesthesia With Neuromonitoring: The Cheat Sheet…
Everyday Neuromonitoring With Anesthesia Conversations... Everyone has their own experiences working with anesthesiologist and CRNAs. At some facilities, the neuromonitoring clinician tells the anesthesia team what they need, and anesthesia accommodates. At other...
Intraoperative Bulbocavernosus Reflex: Give It A Second Chance?
Intraoperative Bulbocavernosus Reflex Surgeon: Isn’t there anything else you can do to monitor the sacral nerve roots? That’s the area I’m most concerned about today… Me: Well, there’s the intraoperative bulbocavernosus reflex. That would monitor the pudendal nerve up...
ABR Click Polarity: Practical Advice On How To Use It In The OR…
Optimization Tip: How To Use ABR Click Polarity Wisely... Brainstem auditory evoked potentials can be a pain. Sometimes downright frustrating. Their saving grace is that anesthesia is really going to have to go out of their way to mess up the responses. We might see...
Could Using EEG For Depth Of Anesthesia Leave You Needing a Lawyer?
Intraoperative EEG For Depth of Anesthesia? There seems to be some confusion on the effectiveness of intraoperative EEG being able to determine some sort of depth of anesthesia. We seem to find ourselves in this scenario far too often... "My blood pressure just...
Monitoring For Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy – Soup To Nuts
Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy Using Intraoperative Neuromonitoring (Guest Post) (Joe's notes: This guest post, written by Kristina Young, covers one of those case types where you know you're going to be part of the surgery today. For a lot of our neuromonitoring cases,...
Saphenous SSEP During Transpsoas Lateral Interbody Fusion
Saphenous SSEP For Protection Of The Femoral Nerve During Transpsoas Lateral Interbody Fusion. Not too long ago, lateral interbody fusion procedures really started to pick up in popularity. Some large studies came out that showed you could fuse the spine with less...
Training Day: How To Do A D-wave And Dorsal Column Mapping Case
D-wave And Dorsal Column Mapping Training Here's the reality for people that want to get trained on doing d-wave and dorsal column mapping on spinal tumors... you most likely aren't going to have the luxury of seeing 30 of these before you start doing these yourself....
Re-Launch = 30 Days Of Neuromonitoring
It has been a long time since I posted articles here on a regular basis. But that's all going to change here shortly. Watch the video for details.