Impact of positional changes in neural monitoring endotracheal tube on amplitude and latency of electromyographic response in monitored thyroid surgery: Results from the Porcine Experiment
ABSTRACT Background The purpose of this study was to evaluate electromyography (EMG) amplitude and latency changes during tube dislocation in monitored thyroid surgery, which may be observed without recurrent laryngeal nerve injury. Methods Duroc–Landrace piglets were intubated with the TriVantage E...
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Published in | Head & neck Vol. 38; no. S1; pp. E1004 - E1008 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
01.04.2016
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Summary: | ABSTRACT
Background
The purpose of this study was to evaluate electromyography (EMG) amplitude and latency changes during tube dislocation in monitored thyroid surgery, which may be observed without recurrent laryngeal nerve injury.
Methods
Duroc–Landrace piglets were intubated with the TriVantage EMG tube. We measured EMG changes during both upward and downward tube dislocation (10–20 mm) and rotation (45–90°) with continuous neuromonitoring.
Results
The EMG amplitude varied significantly with induced endotracheal tube rotation and depth changes. However, the EMG latency was relatively unaffected by such tube dislocation, just a transient artifactual latency change was observed in the situation of extreme amplitude variation.
Conclusion
Amplitude changes without latency changes may be due to changes in tube position alone during surgery, but could still reflect a neurophysiologic event; amplitude changes during neuropraxic injury merit additional investigation. Thus, the combined event (concordant amplitude decrease and latency increase) serves as an appropriate adverse EMG event correlating with impending neural injury. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Head Neck 38: E1004–E1008, 2016 |
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Bibliography: | istex:20769748395E809BA63291002EB7753942A5684E ark:/67375/WNG-74QTZGRV-H ArticleID:HED24145 Disclosure: Ralph P. Tufano has a consulting agreement with Medtronic. The other authors have no conflict of interest to disclosure, no other funding, or financial relationship with the surgical industry. ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 1043-3074 1097-0347 |
DOI: | 10.1002/hed.24145 |