A quasi-wireless intraoperatory neurophysiological monitoring system

E. Alonso, R. Giannetti, C. Rodríguez-Morcillo, J. Matanza, J.D. Muñoz Frías, G. Scandurra, C. Ciofi, L. Vega-Zelaya, J. Pastor

Electronics Vol. 11, nº. 23, pp. 3918

Summary:

Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring is a set of monitoring techniques that reads electrical activity generated by the nervous system structures during surgeries. In non-trivial surgeries, neurophysiologists require a significant number of electrical signals to be picked up to check the effects of the surgeon’s actions in real time or to confirm that the correct nerves are selected. As a result, cabling the patient in the operating room can become cumbersome. The proposed WIONM module solves part of the problem by converting a good part of those cables into a wireless connection that is substantially transparent to the human operator and the existing medical instrumentation.

Keywords: intraoperative monitoring; ECG; EMG; EEG; MEP; SSEP; AEP; wireless

JCR-JIF Impact Factor and WoS quartile: 2,900 - Q2 (2025)

DOI reference: https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11233918

Published on paper: December 2022.

Published on-line: November 2022.

Citation:
E. Alonso, R. Giannetti, C. Rodríguez-Morcillo, J. Matanza, J.D. Muñoz Frías, G. Scandurra, C. Ciofi, L. Vega-Zelaya, J. Pastor, "A quasi-wireless intraoperatory neurophysiological monitoring system", Electronics, Vol. 11, nº. 23, pp. 3918, December 2022. [Online: November 2022] doi: 10.3390/electronics11233918