Education
Ongoing education programs are available for local technologists for certification requirements (CNIM or CNIM eligible), physicians in concert with the hospital for Category I CEUs, and inservice education for hospital staff.
Neural Integrity Monitoring for Spine Surgeons
1.5 AMA PRA Category I
Upon completion of this educational activity, participants should be able to:
- Describe an electrical circuit
- Review voltage and current
- Review the central nervous system
- Describe the peripheral nervous system
- Neurospinal Anatomy
- Electrophysiology
- Neurostimulation
- Nerve Root Monitoring
- Free-Running EMG
- Triggered EMG
- Electrode Placement
- Anesthesia
- Spinal Cord Monitoring
- Historical
- DSEP Cursory overview (text and images)
- Wake Up Test (text and images)