Clinical Outcomes
Journal Articles
Below are journal articles related to the NIM® Nerve Monitoring Systems.
Thyroid Procedures
Dralle H. Intraoperative Monitoring of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve in Thyroid Surgery. World J Surg 2008 Jul; 32(7):1358-66.
The article listed above, which received the World Journal of Surgery award for Best Paper in 2008, identifies risk-minimizing tools to help avoid recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy.
Dralle H, Sekulla C, Haerting J, Timmermann W, Neumann HJ, Kruse E, Grond S, Mühlig HP, Richter C, Voß J, Thomusch O, Lippert H, Gastinger I, Brauckhoff M , Gimm O. Risk factors of paralysis and functional outcome after recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring in thyroid surgery. Surgery 2004;136:1310–1322.
Eisele DW. Intraoperative electrophysiologic monitoring of the recurrent laryngeal nerve. Laryngoscope 1996;106:443–449.
Lo CY, Kwok KF, Yuen PW. A prospective evaluation of recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis during thyroidectomy. Arch Surg 2000;135:204–207.
Randolph, Gregory W. Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands. Chapter 25: Surgical Anatomy of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve (p316). Elsevier Science (USA), 2003.
Thomusch O, Sekulla C, Walls G, Machens A, Dralle H. Intraoperative neuromonitoring of surgery for benign goiter. Amer J Surg 2002;183:673–678.
General
Beck, Douglas L. Handbook of Intraoperative Monitoring. Singular Publishing Group, Inc., 1994.
Kartush, Jack and Bouchard, Kenneth R. Neuromonitoring in Otology and Head and Neck Surgery. Raven Press, New York, 1992.
Miller, Aage R. Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring. Harwood Academic Publishers, 1995.
