• Surg Technol Int · Sep 2013

    Vagus nerve stimulation for standardized monitoring: technical notes for conventional and endoscopic thyroidectomy.

    • Gianlorenzo Dionigi, Hoon Yub Kim, Che-Wei Wu, Matteo Lavazza, Cesare Ferrari, Andrea Leotta, Sebastiano Spampatti, Francesca Rovera, Stefano Rausei, Luigi Boni, and Feng-Yu Chiang.
    • Director, 1st Division of General Surgery Director, Endocrine Surgery Research Center Department of Surgical Sciences and Human Morphology University of Insubria, Varese, Italy.
    • Surg Technol Int. 2013 Sep 1; 23: 95-103.

    AbstractStandardization of the intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) technique is an essential aspect of modern monitored thyroid surgery. The standardized technique involves vagal nerve stimulation. VN stimulation is useful for technical problem solving, detecting non-recurrent laryngeal nerve (non-RLN), recognizing any recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) lesions, and precisely predicting RLN postoperative function. Herein, we present technical notes for the VN identification to achieve the critical view of safety of the VN stimulation with or without dissection.

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