Information For Patients
Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring (IOM or IONM) decreases risk of injury to the nervous system during surgery. This is done by monitoring certain neurological structures, depending on the specific surgery, whose functional integrity are at risk during the procedure.
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Are you having surgery? Does your surgery require intraoperative neuromonitoring? Click here to see what we recommend for your surgery.
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Benefits of IOM
- Postoperative neurological deficits are significantly reduced.
- If a complication occurs during the surgery, it can be quickly identified by IOM allowing the surgeon time to rectify a potentially harmful outcome. Click here for the full article describing this benefit.
- The surgeons who use IOM services believe that it increases patient safety by decreasing the operative risk. For the full article, click here.
