CMS have identified 30 surgeries that carry a higher risk of nerve and vascular damage that can lead to lifelong complications. Intraoperative Neuromonitoring (IONM) acts as an early warning system, allowing surgeons to detect and prevent potential issues in real time, preserving the patient’s safety and quality of life.
There are about 3.8 million high-risk surgeries in the US each year. The failure to use IONM, or the improper use of IONM costs providers, surgeons, and payers many millions in settlements each year, but patients continue to suffer.
Supported Surgeries
1.2 million patients undergo spinal surgery in the US each year, and up to 38% of the patients in unmonitored spinal fusion surgery experience nerve root irritation and/or pedicle wall breaches.
Techniques like fluoroscopy and traditional IONM improve the success rate of these surgeries, but each comes with significant drawbacks and limitations. The SENTINEL AI-IONM Platform integrates with popular EMG equipment to support AI-powered monitoring in real time.
Spinal Degenerative Surgery
Supported Surgeries
100,000 patients undergo a radical prostatectomy (RP) in the US each year to remove their cancerous prostates, and 100% of the patients demonstrate complete short-term (2-year) impotence and incontinence following surgery.
Urologic surgeries are not currently monitored, but the Sentinel AI-IONM, coupled with vascular monitoring for urinary and rectal incontinence and erectile function, will help surgeons transform patient quality of life for 100,000 men each year.
Radical Prostatectomy (RP)
