Is the new ASNM intraoperative neuromonitoring supervision "guideline" a trustworthy guideline? A commentary

Stanley A. Skinner; Elif Ilgaz Aydinlar; Lawrence F. Borges; Bob S. Carter; Bradford L. Currier; Vedran Deletis; Charles Dong; John Paul Dormans; Gea Drost; Isabel Fernandez-Conejero; E. Matthew Hoffman; Robert N. Holdefer; Paulo Andre Teixeira Kimaid; Antoun Koht; Karl F. Kothbauer; David B. MacDonald; John J. McAuliffe; David E. Morledge; Susan H. Morris; Jonathan Norton; Klaus Novak; Kyung Seok Park; Joseph H. Perra; Julian Prell; David M. Rippe; Francesco Sala; Daniel M. Schwartz; Martin J. Segura; Kathleen Seidel; Christoph Seubert; Mirela V. Simon; Francisco Soto; Jeffrey A. Strommen; Andrea Szelenyi; Armando Tello; Sedat Ulkatan; Javier Urriza; Marshall Wilkinson

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Is the new ASNM intraoperative neuromonitoring supervision "guideline" a trustworthy guideline? A commentary

Stanley A. Skinner^*, Elif Ilgaz Aydinlar, Lawrence F. Borges, Bob S. Carter, Bradford L. Currier, Vedran Deletis, Charles Dong, John Paul Dormans, Gea Drost, Isabel Fernandez-Conejero, E. Matthew Hoffman, Robert N. Holdefer, Paulo Andre Teixeira Kimaid, Antoun Koht, Karl F. Kothbauer, David B. MacDonald, John J. McAuliffe, David E. Morledge, Susan H. Morris, Jonathan NortonKlaus Novak, Kyung Seok Park, Joseph H. Perra, Julian Prell, David M. Rippe, Francesco Sala, Daniel M. Schwartz, Martin J. Segura, Kathleen Seidel, Christoph Seubert, Mirela V. Simon, Francisco Soto, Jeffrey A. Strommen, Andrea Szelenyi, Armando Tello, Sedat Ulkatan, Javier Urriza, Marshall Wilkinson

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Abstract

The new ASNM intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) supervision guideline [1] attempts to justify current remote IONM practices.1 Contrary to ordinary clinical practice guideline development, it is provider-centered, not patient-centered.

The new guideline could have embraced recent scholarship that indicates the need to provide robust teamwork and medical error avoidance. It could have moved in the direction of improved patient safety and outcomes. Instead, key words are repeated (“communicate,” “collaborate,” “team”) many times, but with no meaningful strategy to achieve their patient safety potential. In fact, within this new guideline, an IONM remote provider’s communication with in-room physician peers and co-practitioners is defined as: “… at minimum, direct voice access (via ‘land-line’ or cellular network) for perioperative communication with the surgical team”.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	185-190
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of clinical monitoring and computing
Volume	33
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10877-018-00242-3
Publication status	Published - Apr-2019

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OPERATING-ROOM
COMMUNICATION
TELEMEDICINE
TEAMWORK
ERROR
CARE

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Skinner, S. A., Aydinlar, E. I., Borges, L. F., Carter, B. S., Currier, B. L., Deletis, V., Dong, C., Dormans, J. P., Drost, G., Fernandez-Conejero, I., Hoffman, E. M., Holdefer, R. N., Teixeira Kimaid, P. A., Koht, A., Kothbauer, K. F., MacDonald, D. B., McAuliffe, J. J., Morledge, D. E., Morris, S. H., ... Wilkinson, M. (2019). Is the new ASNM intraoperative neuromonitoring supervision "guideline" a trustworthy guideline? A commentary. Journal of clinical monitoring and computing, 33(2), 185-190. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10877-018-00242-3

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