Intraoperative Neurophysiological: Dorsal Column Mapping
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 surgeon, but because...
Neuromonitoring Jobs: Beefing Up Your Resume
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, right? For those...
Neuromonitoring Carotid Endarterectomy Procedures
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...
Neuromonitoring Carotid Endarterectomy Surgeries
A Request From A Reader... Create a Presentation For Neuromonitoring Carotid Endarterectomy Procedures I had an email from a colleague looking for some info for neuromonitoring carotid endarterectomy procedures. I decided to go ahead and make a slideshow presentation,...
Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potential During Chiari Malformation
Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potential Used To Predict The Need For Duraplasty In Chiari Malformation Type I Decompression Have you ever had the following conversation with a surgeon after decompression is complete? Surgeon: How do things looks (refering to SSEP and/or...
Reason #2 You Didn’t Pass The DABNM Oral Exam. You Took The Bait.
Tips On How To Prepare For The DABNM Oral Exam Continuing on from my first post about reasons why you didn't pass the DABNM oral boards, I'd like to cover something that you'll hear from most people that took the DABNM oral exam... They couldn't believe how BAD things...
Reason #1 You Didn’t Pass The DABNM Oral Examination. You Weren’t Right… Enough.
How To Pass The DABNM Oral Examination Let's not kid ourselves here... the DABNM oral examination is one tough exam. I've taken clinical boards, national boards, Florida state boards and the boards for the diplomate in Chiropractic neurology (DACNB). All were much...
The P14 Potential: What You Need To Know
SSEP P14 Potential: One Of The Unknown Obligates Do you use a P14 potential for SSEP in the upper extremity? I didn't think so (don't worry, I usually don't either). But if you took a CNIM or DABNM exam, you'd think it would be a part of everyone's montage. I mean,...
Popliteal Fossa Potential: How and Why To Set It Up
The Popliteal Fossa Response I got an email the other day for someone looking for some help with obtaining a popliteal fossa potential... Joe, Thanks again for the help! Had a question... with the Pop Fossa, what montage do you use for it? I've never done them, nor...