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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2023

The Use of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring for Cervical Spine Surgery: Indications, Challenges, and Advances.

John Preston Wilson, Javier Brunet Vallejo, Deepak Kumbhare, Bharat Guthikonda, Stanley Hoang

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
7.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Evaluating the predictive value of multimodal intraoperative neuromonitoring in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: a retrospective cohort study on 442 patients.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2025
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  5. Intraoperative neuromonitoring is not a useful adjunct for Chiari malformation decompressive surgery: a cost-benefit and legal analysis.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

John Preston WilsonDepartment of Neurosurgery, Louisiana State University Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA 71103, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3846-3188
Javier Brunet VallejoDepartment of Neurosurgery, Louisiana State University Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA 71103, USA.
Deepak KumbhareDepartment of Neurosurgery, Louisiana State University Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA 71103, USA.
Bharat GuthikondaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Louisiana State University Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA 71103, USA.
Stanley HoangDepartment of Neurosurgery, Louisiana State University Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA 71103, USA.
Louisiana State University in Shreveport · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) has become an indispensable surgical adjunct in cervical spine procedures to minimize surgical complications. Understanding the historical development of IONM, indications for use, associated pitfalls, and recent developments will allow the surgeon to better utilize this important technology. While IONM has shown great promise in procedures for cervical deformity, intradural tumors, or myelopathy, routine use in all cervical spine cases with moderate pathology remains controversial. Pitfalls that need to be addressed include human error, a lack of efficient communication, variable alarm warning criteria, and a non-standardized checklist protocol. As the techniques associated with IONM technology become more robust moving forward, IONM emerges as a crucial solution to updating patient safety protocols.

Indexed as

cervical deformitycervical spine surgerycomplication avoidanceintraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM)machine learning (ML) in IONMsomatosensory evoked potential (SSEP)standardization of IONM protocolstranscranial motor evoked potential (TcMEP)

Identifiers

PMID37510767
PMCPMC10380862
OpenAlexW4384202113

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