"IONM is truly a team effort in which each member contributes his or her individual knowledge and skill to achieve the optimal patient outcome. As anesthesiologists, our knowledge of physiology pharmacology, the surgical procedure and the patient’s medical comorbidities allows us to directly participate in reducing risks by improving the patient’s hemodynamics and neural environment”

  — MARK KAITNER, MD, VICE PRESIDENT OF EPIOM

Our high standards come from a long history of leadership in the operating room. We have been the premier neuromonitoring service in the San Antonio area for almost two decades and are now extending our exceptional services nation-wide. Originally founded by an audiologist, EPIOM began pioneering intraoperative monitoring services among operating rooms in the San Antonio area. In 2010, the company moved under the ownership of two anesthesiologists with a vision of expanding EPIOM into the elite neuromonitoring company it is today.

EPIOM employs a professional team of highly experienced and educated technologists who are held to the highest standard of competency. We have a longstanding tradition of providing quality IOM services to our community. Our team approach to patient care is what sets us apart, working side by side with the same surgeons and anesthesiologists for decades. All of our technologists have received excellent training and have been awarded a Certification in Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring (CNIM), or are actively acquiring their certification. Many of our technologists have advanced degrees in audiology and neurology.

Our board certified or board eligible technologists are trained to manage complications that may arise during your surgery. We work closely with your surgeon to reduce or eliminate problems that may result in post-operative long-term nerve injury.

We offer various types of monitoring to ensure your safety during the surgical procedure. If your surgeon has not mentioned using neural monitoring during your brain or spine surgery, simply inform your surgeon that you would like Epiom to monitor and supervise your procedure.

EPIOM has led the industry in providing physicians trained in electrophysiology, neurophysiology, and intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring to work with our surgical neurophysiologists during surgery. Known as supervising neurologists, these individuals are part of our “real time” monitoring program that consists of transmitting data from the operating room to the neurologist in real-time.

The supervising neurologist interprets the data that is provided by the surgical neurophysiologist and communicates directly with the monitorist and surgical team during the entire surgery. When appropriate, our supervising neurologists speak with the surgeon regarding changes in data.

With the number of full-time and dedicated supervising neurologists we employ, we are able to provide this type of quality assurance and added protection during all of our surgeries on a 24/7 365 day basis.