Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring team's communique with anesthesia professionals.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) is the standard of care during many spinal, vascular, and intracranial surgeries. High-quality perioperative care requires the communication and cooperation of several multidisciplinary teams. One of these multidisciplinary services is intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM), while other teams represent anesthesia and surgery. Few studies have investigated the IONM team's objective communication with anesthesia providers. We conducted a retrospective review of IONM-related quality assurance data to identify how changes in the evoked potentials observed during the surgery were communicated within our IONM-anesthesia team and determined the resulting qualitative outcomes.

Material and methods

Quality assuran

SUBMITTER: Tewari A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5885456 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature