Complex spine deformity surgery leaves little margin for ambiguity about who says what, and when. The Best Practice Guidelines for the Execution of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring in Spine Deformity Surgery set out what sound practice looks like. This session brings the people who wrote them.
Authors from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and SpecialtyCare join together to work through the key recommendations, the role intraoperative neuromonitoring plays in identifying and responding to neurologic changes, and why communication and collaboration across the OR team sit at the center of the guidelines rather than at the edges.
The panel also covers what applying those recommendations looks like in real-world deformity cases, and what the guidelines could mean for the future of intraoperative neuromonitoring.
Learnings include:
- The key recommendations from the best practice guidelines
- The role of neuromonitoring in identifying and responding to neurologic changes
- Why communication and collaboration across the OR team are central to execution
- How the authors apply these recommendations in real-world spine deformity surgery