Topic

• Continuous intraoperative neuromonitoring (cIONM) in thyroid surgery

Target group

• Doctors who already use IONM and who want to deepen their knowledge
• Doctors who are responsible for IONM or who want to establish the use of IONM in their clinic

In this course you will learn

• IONM basics with regards to technologies, applications and innovations
• Placing of electrodes, system, stimulation and recording technologies
• Tips and tricks for OP preparation, like lens barrel selection and placing
• Intermittent and continuous neuromonitoring of the nervus vagus, nervus laryngeus recurrens and nervus laryngeus superior
• Anasthesiological aspects of IONM
• Mechanisms / Causes of signal changes
• Differentiation of function-related signal changes and artefacts
• Fluorescence imaging of parathyroid glands
• Consequences of intraoperative signal changes and signal loss
• Tips and tricks with particular patients or operative situations
• Documentation of IONM findings and quality checks
• Demonstration of the application of (c)IONM in thyroidectomies (if necessary with central or (uni)lateral lymphadenectomy) through observing a live operation