Surgical Procedures of the Spine for Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring Providers

This book equips the intraoperative monitoring provider (both technologist and physician) with details of commonly monitored surgical procedures of the spine. This knowledge better allows the monitorist to identify critical phases of the surgery and correlate those with neuroanatomical and functional risk at each phase. 

Chapters are authored by a surgeon and neurophysiologist, with the surgeon contributing procedural content and the neurophysiologist contributing information on how the monitoring integrates within the context of the procedure. It is the first book that incorporates content about the surgical procedure directly with the intraoperative monitoring plan for the surgery.

This text will have a wide audience throughout the medical specialty of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring; it will be of interest to technologists, interpreting physicians or neurophysiologists, anesthesiologists, and surgeons; essentially anyone on the surgical team that lacks a detailed knowledge of both the surgical procedure and the neurophysiology.  

Chapter 1   Surgeries Involving C1 and C2

a. Posterior C1-2 instrumentation and fusion techniques

b. Occipito-cervical fusion

c. Far lateral transcondylar approaches

d. Trans-oral approaches to C1-2

e. Chiari decompression

Chapter 2  Sub-Axial Cervical Procedures

a. Approaches to high cervical pathologies- anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (C3-4)

b. Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion

c. Posterior cervical laminectomy and fusion

d. Anterior and posterior cervical spine surgery (360 degrees)

e. Anterior approaches to low cervical spine pathologies- cervico-thoracic junction

f. Cervical spine deformity correction surgeries- corpectomies, osteotomies

Chapter 3—Scoliosis Correction

Chapter 4—Thoracic Spine Surgery

a. Thoracic microdiscectomy

b. Thoracic corpectomies- trans-thoracic, thoraco-abdominal and extra-cavitary approaches

c. Kyphoplasty

Chapter 5—Lumbar Spine Surgery

a.  Lumbar microdiscectomy

b.  Lumbar laminectomy

c.  Lumbar fusion techniques- TLIF, PLIF, LLIF, ALIF

d.  Deformity corrections in the lumbar spine

e.  Lumbar corpectomies- retroperitoneal approach

Chapter 6—Minimally Invasive Approaches

a.  Posterior cervical lamino-foraminotomy

b.  Anterior cervical foraminotomy

c.  MIS spinal fusion techniques- TLIF and LLIF

d.  MIS microdiscectomy and laminectomy

e.  MIS deformity corrections including corpectomy

Chapter 7—Tumors of the Spine

a.  Primary spine tumors

b.  Extradural extramedullary tumors

c.  intradural extramedullary tumors

d.  Intradural intramedullary tumors

a.  Metastatic spine tumors:  surgical decision