Spine-Tek Neuromonitoring

intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (ionm) has been around for many years. just as surgical procedures have become technologically advanced, so has ionm. ionm is now considered the standard of care during neurological spinal procedures. not only does ionm demonstrate reliability and validity during correction of deformities, but patients can now benefit with the use of ionm during complex surgeries, far beyond scoliosis. spinal cord function can be monitored by various techniques. sensory evoked potentials (sep's), motor evoked potentials (mep's), electromyography (emg), and electroencephalography (eeg) are all types of monitoring techniques used either alone or in a multimodality setting. ionm promotes early warning of neural function should it become impaired or injured, allowing the surgeon to initiate immediate intervention. ionm can be helpful in identifying distorted anatomy from tumors, lesions, degenerative disease, etc. it can also be useful during intubation and posi