Patent ID: 8063770

Claim:
Apparatus for monitoring the activity of a surgeon during a particular facial surgery procedure, comprising: (a) a plurality of wireless sensing units positioned at a plurality of points on the face of a patient being operated on, said points being positioned proximate to selected facial nerves, said selected facial nerves being at risk in said particular surgery, and said points being further positioned with respect to said nerves at risk, to be coupled to said nerves at risk, said wireless sensing units producing an output indicative of nerve stimulation and the magnitude of such stimulation; (b) a wireless receiver capable of receiving the output of said wireless sensing units and producing at its output a plurality of signals each corresponding to the output of one of said plurality of wireless sensing units; (c) an analyzer unit for receiving said plurality of signals each corresponding to the output of one of said plurality of wireless sensing units from said wireless receiver and comparing said plurality of signals to corresponding threshold values, said analyzer unit producing an alarm actuation output indicative of the existence of onset nerve reactions indicating the onset of nerve injury; and (d) an indicator responsive to said alarm actuation output of said analyzer unit to produce an alarm signal.