Serving Hospitals
Biotronic, founded by Dr. H.B. Calder, offers neural protection services to hospitals and surgeons in need of reliable, high quality monitoring. With neural monitoring technologists extensively trained in all monitoring modalities, around the clock service, and quality assurance procedures in place, we can provide the most effective neural monitoring solutions for patients.
Why Choose Us?
Medicine has entered an era of managed competition and fixed-price financing, where the paradigm has shifted from "quality care regardless of cost" to "quality care at reasonable cost." That imperative challenges physicians and health care organizations to deploy resources effectively and do more for less.
Biotronic was established by Dr. H.B. Calder with the goal of allowing hospitals the freedom to offer their patients neural protection through high quality surgical monitoring without incurring the high cost of maintaining a surgical monitoring staff. Today, we have succeeded in providing reliable neurophysiologic monitoring services to hospitals across the country, eliminating the worrisome problem for surgeons and hospital staff who have to arrange for neural monitoring on short notice, often settling for improperly trained neural monitoring technologists and unsatisfactory service.
If your hospital is in need of reliable neurophysiological intraoperative monitoring, Biotronic can help. We understand the frustrations involved with finding reliable neural protection services, and will work with you, whether you have a current system in place and need a neural monitoring technologist to fill in temporarily or are looking for a permanent solution to your neural monitoring problem, we can provide reliable neural protection services. Our neural monitoring technologists are available around the clock, whenever and wherever you need us.
Biotronic offers many advantages over staffing an in-house service:
- We are a recognized leader in the field of neural monitoring
- We are dedicated to high quality
- We provide professional oversight through real-time remote supervision
- Our neural monitoring technologists are highly qualified and experienced
- Surgeons are uniformly pleased with the care we give their patients
- We offer comprehensive monitoring services throughout the United States and can be there whenever you need us
Surgical monitoring, done properly, involves more than just neural monitoring technologists running neurodiagnostic equipment. It must involve critical human judgment of monitored information, be reliable, and be available when and where needed. The surgeons that we work with have confidence in our neural monitoring technologists because they are knowledgeable and provide accurate information. These surgeons view Biotronic as a leader in the field of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring, providing the highest quality of neural protection services in the nation.
Biotronic delivers excellence you can count on in:
- Clinical personnel
- Equipment
- Timely delivery
- Highest quality services
- State-of-the-art applications and techniques
- Solving difficult surgical monitoring challenges
If you need neural protection services for an upcoming surgery, contact Biotronic to speak with a member of our office staff at Biotronic today.
Contract Information
Biotronic offers different types of contracts to meet your hospital's needs. Pricing depends on the estimated volume of cases and the length and exclusivity of the contract.
Long-Term Exclusive Contract
This option offers the best pricing for your facility. Our standard contract includes a fixed fee for up to seven hours of room time, with an hourly fee after seven hours. If your average surgery duration for cases requiring surgical monitoring is four hours or less, we can also offer an hourly fee. We will work with you to find the best possible solution.
Case-By-Case Contract
Biotronic can also provide neural protection services on a case-by-case basis. If you have surgical monitoring in-house but need supplemental coverage for high-demand days, this may be an option to consider. The contract includes a fixed fee for up to seven hours of room time, with an hourly fee after seven hours. This contract is cancelable at any time with no obligation.
Short-Term (30-Day) Contract
If you have an immediate need for surgical monitoring but do hot have a contract in place, we offer a simplified 30-day agreement. This one-page contract allows Biotronic to provide services at the case-by-case pricing until a more formal agreement can be implemented.
For more information about our contracts, contact Biotronic today.
Neural Protection Monitoring Protocol
The neural monitoring technologist will confirm the surgery time the evening before the procedure and/or the morning of, to ensure that surgeries are not missed due to changes in the schedule. When a Biotronic employee arrives in the surgical area, approximately one hour prior to the scheduled surgery time, he/she will change into surgical attire and set up his/her equipment. The neural monitoring technologist will then notify the appropriate operating room (OR) staff of his/her arrival and arrange to have the equipment approved by the biomedical department as required by the hospital.
Prior to entering the operating room, the neural monitoring technologist will see the patient in the pre-op holding area and obtain a pre-operative baseline reading. Upon approaching the patient, the neural monitoring technologist will introduce himself or herself, explain the procedures involved in neural monitoring, and answer any questions that the patient may have regarding the monitoring process.
After obtaining baseline responses, the neural monitoring technologist will proceed to the operating room to setup and prepare to monitor the case. When the surgeon arrives in the operating room, the neural monitoring technologist will confirm the type of procedure being performed as well as the types of monitoring that will be needed for neural protection during the case. During the surgery, the neural monitoring technologist will continuously monitor the patient and inform the surgeon of the patient's neurophysiologic status, as deemed appropriate. While the neural monitoring technologist monitors the case from the hospital, a physician will oversee the surgery through a secure virtual private network (VPN) and can intervene if a complication arises.
A copy of the surgical monitoring log, along with pre-operative, intraoperative baseline, and closing responses, as well as any other significant information will be placed in the patient's chart before the neural monitoring technologist leaves the hospital.
Quality Assurance
Biotronic is committed to consistently providing neural monitoring of the highest quality. We have found this to be a challenging task; yet, we have developed structures and procedures that assure compliance with our clinical procedures. These include our proprietary core competency program, neural monitoring technologist supervision with documentation, and systematic chart review.
In 1999, Biotronic instituted a comprehensive credentialing program in neural monitoring, which we use as a guideline for clinical staff training and for certification of the clinical skills of our existing staff. Our core competencies are sub-divided into 12 areas of specialization. Currently, there are more than 350 competencies to be mastered in the areas of basic science competencies, clinical competencies, and modality-specific monitoring competencies.
Each neural monitoring technologist is required to demonstrate his/her mastery of knowledge in each competency and demonstrate his/her neural monitoring skills under direct supervision. The competencies of each neural monitoring technologist are then maintained in a clinical database. Each surgery that is scheduled with our organization is assigned the skills necessary to monitor that surgery. A neural monitoring technologist who has mastered the required competencies is assigned to that surgery. Our staff members are not allowed to monitor surgeries for which they have not demonstrated the required competencies to perform each modality of monitoring associated with a particular surgery.
After every surgery our neural monitoring technologists receive verbal feedback as well as a written document regarding any deficiencies or deviations in clinical performance. These documents are maintained in the neural monitoring technologist's personnel file and will be reviewed by Dr. H.B. Calder as well as the trainers, the clinical managers, and the regional managers. Results of the chart review are summarized and stored in Biotronic's clinical database. Continuous chart review affords us the opportunity to critically analyze the quality of our clinical work and the compliance of our staff with our established procedures and protocols.
To learn more about neural protection or our quality assurance procedures, contact Biotronic to speak with a member of our staff today.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108
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Contact Biotronic today, for complete neural protection services. We offer safe, reliable monitoring services to keep your patients safe during surgery.