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In pediatric deformity surgery, intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) is your spinal cord’s early warning system — part smoke alarm, part guardian angel. But when the alarms sound, what actually works to fix the problem?

A massive new series looked at 5,317 consecutive pediatric deformity surgeries performed between 1992 and 2024 to answer exactly that. The result is one of the largest real-world looks at IONM alerts and what happens after the beep.


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