Elite Neuromonitoring
Advanced Patient Care with Skilled Intraoperative Monitoring

More than three million spinal procedures are performed worldwide per year and only a fraction are monitored via intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM).

A massive shortage of trained technical staff is its primary reason. But it goes without saying that IONM is increasingly becoming the standard of care to prevent and minimize neurological risks during any surgery, not just spinal procedures.

Elite Neuromonitoring puts itself on the map as a company that blends leading-edge IONM technology with a team of highly trained neurophysiologists to safeguard patients in ORs with its seamless IONM services.

Its top-tier IONM services include somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs), transcranial electric motor evoked potentials (TceMEPs), brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEP), electroencephalography (EEG), and electromyography (EMG). This real-time monitoring systems have helped hospitals elevate their levels of patient safety.

But what makes Elite stand out is that it’s a tech-owned and operated company. It adds more flexibility to use the resources as it sees fit instead of sinking into the endless loop of fiscal profitability. Elite’s primary drivers are patient safety and experience, and its autonomous status lets it devote a great share of ROI into improving its technology and services to be 100 percent patient focused.

“We also hire the absolute best. All our technicians are renowned in the industry, having no less than a decade’s experience under their belt. They cover every case thrown at them, from the simplest cases to the most complicated craniotomy. You won't find a better team anywhere; our specialists offer a sense of safety in the operating room,” says Kris Culbertson, M.S., CNIM, president of Elite Neuromonitoring, highlighting its USP.

Being a small and agile company makes it even more flexible. Every healthcare provider’s needs are different, and Elite understands that.

It steers away from the cookie-cutter approach of offering standardized IONM services and puts together a plan that best fits a client’s requirements. Every contract is designed differently—which Culbertson personally looks after—to match the customized IONM platform and technician support for healthcare facilities.

Elite, in this regard, calls itself a seamless, no worries company. When a facility partners with it, they can rest assured that even in their most challenging situations, Elite’s specialists will remain calm and composed and address their issue with ease and sophistication.

The team serves their clients with a positive mindset, and doesn’t believe in the notion of something being impossible. A case in point is how the Elite team handled the surgery of a former Army Ranger. The trauma patient was brought in with multiple fractures after suffering a massive skydiving accident. Some members of the surgical team felt that he will not be able to stand on his feet again, and his family members were immensely disheartened. Upon seeing he was neurologically intact, Culbertson took charge and spoke to the family members and urged them to remain optimistic. Months later, the patient could walk down the aisle on his wedding all by himself.

The patient’s recovery is no less than an inspirational story, and Elite is determined to script more down the line. Currently operating in three states, Elite has its eyes set on expanding in the south, starting with Colorado and Alabama. Its future endeavors also include signing a national contract with the Ascension Healthcare—one of the largest private healthcare systems in the U.S.—to expand its market in the Eastern seaboard.

With a growth committed mindset and a work culture rooted in fostering meaningful doctor-doctor-neurophysiologist relationship, Elite is ushering in a new horizon of patient-safe surgeries.