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The ASNM
Position
Statement
Project
The
American
Society of
Neurophysiological
Monitoring
(ASNM) is
an
organization
whose
membership
is diverse
in
educational
backgrounds,
specialization,
and
experience.
Now in its
16th year,
the ASNM
has as its
mission,
"to
improve
patient
outcomes
through
the
application
of
neurophysiological
monitoring."
The ASNM
actualizes
its
mission by
a number
of means
including
the
promotion
of
platforms
for
quality
educational
opportunities
concerning
scientific
advancements
and their
clinical
applications.
Accordingly,
the ASNM
is engaged
in the
process of
developing
position
statements
concerning
both the
technical
and
professional
interpretive
aspects of
neurophysiological
monitoring.
Great care
has been
taken in
architecting
the
development
process
itself, as
our aim is
to provide
practitioners
and
institutions
with
living
documents
that will
help them
in making
choices
for
optimizing
patient
care in
their
community.
It is also
part of
our
process to
periodically
review and
revise
these
statements,
as needed,
according
to newly
acquired
knowledge.
We are
committed
to
assuring
that all
practitioners
and other
concerned
individuals
have an
opportunity
to voice
their
opinions
on draft
statements.
We have
implemented
this goal
by
requiring
statement
authoring
committees
to address
all
comments
that they
receive.
The
comments
will be
maintained
in a
separate
document
along with
a brief
explanation
of how the
committee
has
incorporated
the
comment
into the
draft
statement.
These
comment
logs will
be
published
on the
ASNM web
site,
www.ASNM.org.
A diagram
of the
authoring
process is
also
available
on the
ASNM web
site.
The ASNM
recognizes
that other
organizations
will have
an
interest
these
position
statements
and we
want the
leadership
and
members of
these
organizations
to become
partners
in the
statement
drafting
process.
Thus, we
send a
request to
make these
statements
available
to the
membership
of number
of
organizations
that we
have
identified
as likely
having
this
interest.
We also
make the
information
available
here on
our web
site.. The
program
used to
view these
documents,
Adobe
Acrobat
Reader®,
is
available
as a free
download
program at
www.adobe.com.
We invite
you to
download
these
documents
and
following
the
instructions
on
commenting.
If you
have any
questions
or
concerns
regarding
our
Position
Statement
Project,
please do
not
hesitate
to contact
me at
ASNMeduc@Neurostatus.com.
Sincerely,
David E
Morledge,
Ph.D., CCC-A,
DABNM,
FASNM
Chairperson,
Education
Committee,
ASNM
Disclaimer
These
statements
are based
on
information
presented
at
scientific
meetings,
published
in the
current
scientific
and
clinical
literature,
and
presented
in
previously
published
guidelines
and
position
statements
of various
clinical
societies.
These
documents
may not
include
all
possible
methodologies
and
interpretive
criteria,
nor are
they
intended
to exclude
any new
alternatives.
ASNM
provides
general
information
and
education
materials
as a
service in
furtherance
of its
nonprofit
and
tax-exempt
status.
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Statement
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