Open AccessIntraoperative neurophysiological monitoring team's communiqué with anesthesia professionals
Author(s) -
Anurag Tewari,
Lisa Francis,
Ravi N. Samy,
Dean Kurth,
Joshua Castle,
Tiffany Frye,
Mohamed Mahmoud
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of anaesthesiology-clinical pharmacology/journal of anaesthesiology clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2231-2730
pISSN - 0970-9185
DOI - 10.4103/joacp.joacp_315_17
Subject(s) - medicine , intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring , anesthesia , neurophysiology , medical emergency , psychiatry
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.