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President’s Message: November 2020
Dear Members, We are at the end of the year and looking forward to embracing the coming year 2021. If you are a current or past ASNM member, I would like to…
President’s Message: October 2020
Dear Members, First of all, I would like to congratulate ASNM, CANM, and committee chair groups that pulled off a fantastic Fall meeting. Willy Boucharel and Lanjun Guo From ASNM and Kristine Pederson…
President’s Message: July 2020
Dear Members, I hope everyone is staying safe. We are working on multiple projects for our members, and I want to update you about the important steps we have taken recently. First,…
President’s Message: June 2020 – ASNM Statement of Solidarity
Dear ASNM Members, The ASNM Board believes it is crucial at this time, to publicly state our support for each and every patient, member, colleague and other healthcare professional regardless of his/her…
President’s Message: May 2020
Dear ASNM Members: I am very excited and humbled to become the President of the American Society of Neurophysiological Monitoring (ASNM) for the year 2020-21. When starting as a medical student thirty-five…
In the Literature: Utility of Motor and Somatosensory Evoked Potentials for Neural Thermoprotection in Ablations of Musculoskeletal Tumors
The Big Question: First, let me apologize up front for the quote-heavy content of this write-up. Though I have been in the field of IONM for a while I have not had experience…
In the Literature: Use of the train-of-five bipolar technique to provide reliable, spatially accurate motor cortex identification in asleep patients
The Big Question: The authors (Bander, et al.) point out that monopolar stimulation for direct cortical brain mapping is quickly become the standard when compared to the previous method of mapping: “low-frequency…
