New backstrap vagus electrode for continuous intraoperative neuromonitoring in thyroid surgery

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 206-213

  Lamadé, Wolfram ^a   Ulmer, Christoph ^a   Rieber, Fabian ^a   Friedrich, Colin ^a   Koch, Klaus P ^b   Thon, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b TRIER UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

CIONM; continuous intraoperative nerve monitoring; endocrine surgery; intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM); real time neuromonitoring; recurrent laryngeal nerve; recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy; thyroid surgery; vagus nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINOUS INTRAOPERATIVE NEUROMONITORING; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE PARALYSIS; NEUROMONITORING; OPERATION DURATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROID SURGERY; VAGUS ELECTRODE; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE; THYROID DISEASES; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 82955202751     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: 15533514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1553350611409955     Document Type: Article

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