Role of Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring in Preventing Stroke after Cardiac Surgery.
Cara M FleseriuIbrahim SultanJames A BrownAmir MinaJacob FrenchmanDonald J CrammondJeffrey BalzerKatherine M AnetakisKathirvel SubramaniamVarun ShandalForozan NavidParthasarathy D ThirumalaPublished in: The Annals of thoracic surgery (2023)
Permanent EEG change and diabetes were significant postoperative stroke predictors in cardiac surgeries. Furthermore, overall survival out to 10-years postoperatively was significantly higher in the group without intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring changes, emphasizing its important predictive role.