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The IOM clinician is part of a patient care team that consists of the surgeon, nurses, technologists, and anesthesiologists. You will recognize that each team member has a specific role to fulfill in order to provide the best care for the patient. As an IOM clinician, you will spend the majority of your working hours inside a hospital operating room (OR). The OR is a unique environment that may take some time getting used to. You will encounter different types of equipment as well as rules for navigating the space and interacting with other team members. This chapter will introduce you to the operating room along with the equipment and personnel you will encounter there.
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What should you do if you suspect that a piece of equipment in the OR is causing significant electrical artifact in your monitoring signal?
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You have a sterile electrode that will be required for stimulating later in the procedure. Who should you give this to?
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What should you do if the anesthesia team is uncooperative with the monitoring plan and insists on a regimen that will prevent you from successfully recording data that the surgeon requests?
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Reed, K.K., Davis, S.F. (2020). Introduction to the Operating Room. In: Davis, S., Kaye, A. (eds) Principles of Neurophysiological Assessment, Mapping, and Monitoring. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22400-4_1
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