NDT 255 - Spinal, Cranial, and Vascular Surgery Overview and Intraoperative Neuromonitoring

3 CR

Students will participate in an online, semi-asynchronous class environment which will focus on overviews of select surgical procedures and intraoperative neuromonitoring paradigms. Students will identify the most common types of surgery to request intraoperative neuromonitoring and the relevant pathophysiology seen in these types of surgical cases. Students will then apply their understanding to predict critical points in varying surgical procedures that place specific neurological structures at the highest relative risk. Students will use this understanding to explain the design of various monitoring plans.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Intraoperative Neuromonitoring Certificate program

Course Outcomes

Define differences between acquired and congenital diseases
Discuss disease processes for acquired and congenital diseases and traumatic injuries
Define list of surgical procedures that commonly request intraoperative neuromonitoring
Identify general sequence of events in different traumatic injuries that commonly result in requests for intraoperative neuromonitoring
Describe steps taken in surgical procedures that commonly request intraoperative neuromonitoring
Identify critical points during surgical procedures that commonly request intraoperative neuromonitoring which represent the relatively highest risk to the central and/or peripheral nervous system(s)
Identify the relevant pathophysiology seen in the most commonly monitored surgical procedures and the most common abnormalities observed
Define commonly used surgical tools and maneuvers and the elements of the pathophysiology placed at most significant risk by these tools and maneuvers
Design an appropriate monitoring paradigm

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