Introduction: Identifying the recurrent laryngeal nerve is the gold standard for reducing injury in thyroidectomy. Objective: To evaluate the usefulness of neuromonitoring in identifying the recurrent laryngeal nerve. Methods: This was a study of 259 recurrent laryngeal nerves at risk during thyroidectomy performed with neuromonitoring (group A: 129 nerves) and without neuromonitoring (control ...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective propensity score-matched analysis on a national database (MarketScan) between 2006 and 2010. OBJECTIVE To compare rates of neurological deficits after elective single-level spinal procedures with and without intraoperative neuromonitoring, as well as associated payment differences and geographic variance. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Intraoperative neurophysiologic ...

Information on the use of neuromonitoring in intensive care units is scattered but significant. Nurses who do not care for neurologically impaired patients on a daily basis may not have a strong understanding of the utility of various neuromonitoring techniques, why they are used, or how they are interpreted. Two main types of neuromonitoring that are frequently seen but poorly understood are r...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Laryngeal nerve injuries are among the most important complications of thyroidectomy. Recently, the use of neuromonitoring has been increasingly employed in order to predict and document nerve function at the end of thyroidectomy. RECENT FINDINGS There is much controversy in recent studies concerning neuromonitoring in thyroid surgery. Some authors believe that the method do...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective case series from a multicenter database. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the risk of neurologic injury during growing rod surgeries and to determine whether intraoperative neuromonitoring is necessary for all growing rod procedures. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Although the use of growing rod constructs for early-onset spinal deformity has become a commonly accepted treatment...

BACKGROUND Intraoperative neuromonitoring of the recurrent laryngeal nerve in thyroid surgery facilitates the identification of anatomical structures in cervical endocrine surgery reducing the frequency of vocal cord paralysis. OBJECTIVE To study the normal electrophysiological values of the vague and recurrent laryngeal nerves before and after thyroid surgery. To compare rates of injury of r...

Neuromonitoring has been utilized during spinal surgery to assess the function of the spinal cord in an effort to prevent intraoperative injury. Although its use is widespread, no clear benefit has been demonstrated. Our goal in this study was to interrogate the value of intraoperative neuromonitoring in decreasing the severity and rate of neurological injury during and after spinal surgery. He...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of intraoperative neuromonitoring in reducing the postoperative recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy rate by a comparison between patients submitted to thyroidectomy with intraoperative neuromonitoring and with routine identification alone. METHODS Between June 2007 and December 2012, 2034 consecutive patients underwent thyroidectomy by ...

Therapeutic interventions following severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) are substantially influenced by complex and interwoven pathophysiological cascades involving both, local and systemic alterations. Our main duty is to prevent secondary progression of the primary damage. This, in turn, obliges us to actively search and identify secondary insults related, for example, to hypoxia, hypotension...