Nerve Monitoring Electrodes
Subdermal Needle Electrodes · Twisted Pair Needle Electrodes · EMG Needle Electrodes · Facial Nerve Monitoring Electrodes · NIM Electrodes
Pairs of very fine short needles, each on a thin color-coded lead wire twisted together with its partner, ending in pin connectors that plug into the nerve monitor's patient interface box.
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What it’s for
Placed in the face muscles before the prep and drape so the facial nerveFAY-shul NERVThe seventh cranial nerve, which moves the muscles of the face and carries taste from the front of the tongue.Full entry monitor can record muscle activity during ear, mastoid, parotid and skull base surgery. When the surgeon stimulates or touches the nerve, the monitor sounds, helping find and protect the nerve.
Lengths and variants
Twisted pair needle electrodes come with color-coded leads so each pair can be matched to its monitor channel.
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2 sources
- Fuller. Surgical Technology: Principles and Practice. 8th ed. Chapter 26 (Surgery of the Ear, Nose, Pharynx, and Larynx), p. 675
- Flint et al. Cummings Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. 6th ed. Vol 3. Chapter 178 (Intraoperative Monitoring of Cranial Nerves in Neurotologic Surgery)
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