ASET Position Statement
Neurodiagnostic professionals (i.e., technologists, specialists, surgical neurophysiologists, etc.) who perform IONM procedures should monitor only one surgical procedure at a time. A single technologist should not be expected to simultaneously monitor surgical procedures in more than one operating suite. There are some intraoperative recording procedures which afford intervals of noncritical time, during which the presence of the technologist may not be critical; however, coordination of multiple surgeons’ and anesthesiologists’ procedural timing and expertise with the Neurodiagnostic professional’s movements between operating suites may place the technologist in the arbitrary and ill-advised position of having to choose which patient’s welfare to guard. Multiple monitoring could result in restricted surgical efficiency, prolonged anesthesia, and possible compromise of judgement; all of which expose the patient to inordinate jeopardy of surgical outcome.