Safety of Continuous Intraoperative Neuromonitoring (C-IONM) in Thyroid Surgery

Alessandro Bacuzzi¹, Henning Dralle², Gregory W Randolph³, Feng-Yu Chiang^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesia and Palliative Care, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Fondazione Macchi, Varese, Italy.
² Universitätsklinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral- und Gefäßchirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Halle (Saale), Medizinische Fakultät, Ernst-Grube-Straße 40, 06097, Halle (Saale), Germany.
³ Division of Thyroid and Parathyroid Endocrine Surgery, Department of Laryngology and Otology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
⁴ Institute of Clinical Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
⁶ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
⁷ Department of Surgery, KUMC Thyroid Center, Korea University Anam Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
⁸ Third Chair and Department of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Kraków, Poland.
⁹ 1st Division of Surgery, Research Center for Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgical Sciences and Human Morphology, University of Insubria (Como-Varese), via Guicciardini 9, 21100, Varese, Italy. gianlorenzo.dionigi@uninsubria.it.

Comment

Alessandro Bacuzzi et al. World J Surg. 2016 Mar.

. 2016 Mar;40(3):768-9.

doi: 10.1007/s00268-015-3288-x.

Alessandro Bacuzzi¹, Henning Dralle², Gregory W Randolph³, Feng-Yu Chiang^{4

5

6}, Hoon Yub Kim⁷, Marcin Barczyński⁸, Gianlorenzo Dionigi⁹

¹ Department of Anaesthesia and Palliative Care, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Fondazione Macchi, Varese, Italy.
² Universitätsklinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral- und Gefäßchirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Halle (Saale), Medizinische Fakultät, Ernst-Grube-Straße 40, 06097, Halle (Saale), Germany.
³ Division of Thyroid and Parathyroid Endocrine Surgery, Department of Laryngology and Otology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
⁴ Institute of Clinical Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
⁶ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
⁷ Department of Surgery, KUMC Thyroid Center, Korea University Anam Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
⁸ Third Chair and Department of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Kraków, Poland.
⁹ 1st Division of Surgery, Research Center for Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgical Sciences and Human Morphology, University of Insubria (Como-Varese), via Guicciardini 9, 21100, Varese, Italy. gianlorenzo.dionigi@uninsubria.it.

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Mounting Evidence of the Potential Perils Associated with Continuous Intraoperative Neuromonitoring: Reply.
Terris DJ, Chaung K, Duke WS. Terris DJ, et al. World J Surg. 2016 Mar;40(3):770-1. doi: 10.1007/s00268-015-3384-y. World J Surg. 2016. PMID: 26728889 No abstract available.

Continuous Vagal Nerve Monitoring is Dangerous and Should not Routinely be Done During Thyroid Surgery.
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