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Is the new ASNM intraoperative neuromonitoring supervision “guideline” a trustworthy guideline? A commentary

Authors: Stanley A. Skinner, Elif Ilgaz Aydinlar, Lawrence F. Borges, Bob S. Carter, Bradford L. Currier, Vedran Deletis, Charles Dong, John Paul Dormans, Gea Drost, Isabel Fernandez-Conejero, E. Matthew Hoffman, Robert N. Holdefer, Paulo Andre Teixeira Kimaid, Antoun Koht, Karl F. Kothbauer, David B. MacDonald, John J. McAuliffe III, David E. Morledge, Susan H. Morris, Jonathan Norton, Klaus Novak, Kyung Seok Park, Joseph H. Perra, Julian Prell, David M. Rippe, Francesco Sala, Daniel M. Schwartz, Martín J. Segura, Kathleen Seidel, Christoph Seubert, Mirela V. Simon, Francisco Soto, Jeffrey A. Strommen, Andrea Szelenyi, Armando Tello, Sedat Ulkatan, Javier Urriza, Marshall Wilkinson

Published in: Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing | Issue 2/2019

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The new ASNM intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) supervision guideline [1] attempts to justify current remote IONM practices.¹ Contrary to ordinary clinical practice guideline development, it is provider-centered, not patient-centered. …

By remote IONM, we mean the dominant US model of IONM in which the supervising neurophysiologist is often unfamiliar with, distant from, and unavailable to in-room colleagues (either personally or virtually) and is situationally unaware. Local hub to satellite “remote” IONM of less complex cases and among familiar team members can be fraught with diminished situational awareness, but is not the focus of this commentary.

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Title: Is the new ASNM intraoperative neuromonitoring supervision “guideline” a trustworthy guideline? A commentary
Authors: Stanley A. Skinner
Elif Ilgaz Aydinlar
Lawrence F. Borges
Bob S. Carter
Bradford L. Currier
Vedran Deletis
Charles Dong
John Paul Dormans
Gea Drost
Isabel Fernandez-Conejero
E. Matthew Hoffman
Robert N. Holdefer
Paulo Andre Teixeira Kimaid
Antoun Koht
Karl F. Kothbauer
David B. MacDonald
John J. McAuliffe III
David E. Morledge
Susan H. Morris
Jonathan Norton
Klaus Novak
Kyung Seok Park
Joseph H. Perra
Julian Prell
David M. Rippe
Francesco Sala
Daniel M. Schwartz
Martín J. Segura
Kathleen Seidel
Christoph Seubert
Mirela V. Simon
Francisco Soto
Jeffrey A. Strommen
Andrea Szelenyi
Armando Tello
Sedat Ulkatan
Javier Urriza
Marshall Wilkinson
Publication date: 01-04-2019
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Keyword: Neuromonitoring
Published in: Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing / Issue 2/2019
Print ISSN: 1387-1307
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2614
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10877-018-00242-3

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