Intraoperative nerve monitoring reduces recurrent laryngeal nerve injury in geriatric patients undergoing thyroid surgery.

Acta Otolaryngol

a Division of Vascular and Thyroid Surgery , Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou , PR China.

Published: December 2017

Objective: This research was aimed to investigate whether the intraoperative nerve monitoring (IONM) can reduce the incidence of recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) injury in geriatric patients undergoing thyroid surgery.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study included 522 geriatric patients undergoing thyroid surgery between January 2013 and June 2016 in the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital. Patients with IONM during the surgery (n = 340) were compared with patients without IONM (n = 212). RLN injury was verified by direct or indirect laryngoscope and relative factors for injury would be retrospectively analyzed.

Results: The use of IONM group showed significant reduction in both total and transient RLN injury incidence, when compared with that in control group (1.76 versus 4.72%, p = .01 and 1.32 versus 3.67%, p = .03, respectively). However, the permanent RLN injury incidence did not show difference between the two groups (p = .3).

Conclusions: Our finding showed the use of IONM resulted in significantly reduction in RLN injury incidence. The technology of IONM is safe and convenient to detect, track and monitor the complete function of RLN and to provide the guidance for the surgeons during the thyroid surgery in geriatric patients, who are at high risk of RLN injury.

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