Borgess Medical Center Selects Impulse Monitoring for Comprehensive IONM Services
Columbia, MD – June 29, 2011 – Impulse Monitoring, Inc. (IMI), a leading provider
of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) services to hospitals, today
announced that it has signed an agreement with Borgess Medical Center, Kalamazoo,
MI. IMI will provide Borgess with comprehensive IONM services featuring real-time
professional oversight by experienced physicians. IONM assesses neurological function
involving the brain, spinal cord and related nerve structures during such surgeries.
Use of IONM facilitates the surgical process and can reduce surgical risk by providing
alerts to surgeons of potential harm to the spinal cord or neural structures. IONM
is essential to helping protect our patients from adverse events in their surgeries.
The addition of Impulse and its physician oversight methodology is a critical level
of additional expertise and assurance that our patients are receiving the best possible
care, said Bob Hayward, Director of Respiratory, Sleep, and Neurophysiology.
IONM is essential to helping protect our patients from adverse events in
their surgeries. The addition of Impulse and its physician oversight methodology
is a critical level of additional expertise and assurance that our patients are
receiving the best possible care, said Bob Hayward, Director of Respiratory,
Sleep, and Neurophysiology.
About Borgess Medical Center
Borgess Medical Center, Kalamazoo, MI is a 424-bed health care facility serving
southwest Michigan. BMC is the only hospital in southwest Michigan that has a comprehensive
OR monitoring program for surgeries of the brain, spinal cord and carotid endarterectomies.
Borgess has a one of a kind comprehensive behavioral medicine program that ranks
number one in behavioral medicine admits in southwest Michigan. BMC is part of Borgess
Health Network, which includes more than 120 sites of care in 15 southern Michigan
cities, as well as eight owned or affiliated hospitals. Visit the Borgess Medical
Center website at: www.borgess.com
About Impulse Monitoring
Impulse Monitoring, Inc. (IMI) provides surgical support services to hospitals and
other facilities that include intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) for spinal,
nerve and brain-related surgeries, and autotransfusion (AT). IONM allows early detection
of neurological compromise and identification of functional neural structures during
surgery. IMI's AT service captures and cleanses a patient's own blood before
and during surgery, making it available for transfusion instead of donated blood.
Visit the IMI website at: www.imi.net
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