The risk for complications while providing dental procedures is greatest when caring for patients having significant medical compromise. It is comforting that significant adverse events can generally be prevented by careful preoperative assessment, along with attentive intraoperative monitoring and support. Nevertheless, the office team must be prepared to manage untoward events should they ari...

This chapter discusses the unique challenges that endoscopic skull base surgery present to the neuroanesthesiologist. The neuroanesthesiology team plays a vital role in ensuring a safe outcome to this delicate surgery. Highly specialized endoscopic techniques and equipment, together with the use of sophisticated intraoperative monitoring, all mandate skillful anesthesia management that is tailo...

This chapter discusses the unique challenges that endoscopic skull base surgery present to the neuroanesthesiologist. The neuroanesthesiology team plays a vital role in ensuring a safe outcome to this delicate surgery. Highly specialized endoscopic techniques and equipment, together with the use of sophisticated intraoperative monitoring, all mandate skillful anesthesia management that is tailo...

BACKGROUND A new device was developed to perform intraoperative static pedography. The purpose of this study was to validate the introduced method by a comparison with the standard method for dynamic and static pedography. METHODS A device known as Kraftsimulator Intraoperative Pedographie (KIOP) was developed for intraoperative placement of standardized forces to the sole of the foot. Pedogr...

OBJECTIVES To gather data on, and assess the applicability of, intraoperative recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) monitoring during thyroidectomy and related cervical procedures in children and adolescents. Recurrent laryngeal nerve trauma is one of the most serious complications of surgery in the anterior neck compartment. Numerous studies have demonstrated the utility of intraoperative monitoring...

A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data Intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring / Gloria M. Galloway. .. [et al.]. p. ; cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites r...

Basic knowledge and technical performance, as well as quality patient care and patient interaction, were considered. The technical components include those defined in the publication Guidelines in EEG, Evoked Potentials and Polysomnography 1994 authored by the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society; Intraoperative EEG Guidelines authored by ASET; and a draft document, Practice Guidelines, by...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Monitoring is useful for vital follow-ups and prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of several events in anesthesia. Although alarms can be useful in monitoring they can cause dangerous user's desensitization. The objective of this study was to describe the development of specific software to integrate intraoperative monitoring parameters generating "smart alerts" that ...

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The risk for complications while providing moderate and deep sedation is greatest when caring for patients already medically compromised. It is reassuring that significant untoward events can generally be prevented by careful preoperative assessment, along with attentive intraoperative monitoring and support. Nevertheless, we must be prepared to manage untoward events should they arise. This co...