Arkana Forum GmbH

20/05/2026

📣 Secure your spot and receive an exclusive bonus: IONM in spinal surgery

Our next live surgery course in Heidelberg starts this June – only a few places remaining!

🗓️ Date: 25 – 26 June 2026
📍 Location: Online & On-site at Orthopaedics at Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany
🗨 Language: English
🩺 Course director: Stefan Hemmer, MD and David B. MacDonald, MD, FRCPC, ABCN
🏅Accreditation: 17 CME credits (Baden-Württemberg Medical Association) and 18 CP credits (DIW MTA e.V.)

🎁 Register now and get complimentary access to our newly launched video training “Safety in IONM.”

📝Register here: https://buff.ly/4fYOZfC

🙏 We thank our sponsors inomed Medizintechnik GmbH, iNCU GmbH, DePuy Synthes, and our partner Orthopaedics at Heidelberg University Hospital for their support.

11/05/2026

⚠️🔌New video training now available: Safety in IONM ⚡🔒

Intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) plays a critical role in modern surgery — but safety aspects are often underestimated in daily clinical practice.

Our newly launched 90-minute online video training provides healthcare professionals with practical insights into the most important safety risks associated with IONM and how to prevent them in the operating room.

The course covers topics such as:
⚡Electrical shock prevention
🧯Fire risks in the OR
🔥Electrode burns
⚠️Hazardous output and device settings
🔒Modality-specific safety precautions
😷Infection control
🔌Essential device performance

The content was carefully curated by our scientific director and internationally renowned expert MacDonald.

Designed for healthcare professionals working with or interested in IONM.

Language: English
Format: Online video training
Duration: 90 minutes

Contact us or visit our website for more information: www.arkana-forum.com

13/11/2025

📣 Course Invitation: Online Symposium 2026

Registration is now open!

Following the success of our first ARKANA Online Symposium “Fundamentals of IONM”, we are pleased to invite you to its next edition: “Applications of IONM”.

🗓️ Date: January – May 2026
📍 Location: Online
🗨 Language: English
🩺 Course director: Dr. Marianella Campos Friz
🏅 Arkana Certificate

Structure of the Online Symposium:
• Module 1: Spinal Surgery
• Module 2: Brain Surgery
• Module 3: Brainstem Surgery

Book the complete course package or individual modules.

Course content:
📌 IONM during spinal, brain and brainstem procedures
📌 Anesthesia & IONM, hurdles in IONM communication and EEG in IONM
📌 Combination of video lectures and interactive online workshops

📝Register now: https://buff.ly/mOPuSjb

23/07/2025

Our courses this fall🎓🍂

🩺 cIONM & (auto)fluorescence imaging in thyroid surgery
- cIONM Basics & Setup
- Signal Analysis
- Clinical Application:
- Intraoperative Strategy & Documentation

🧠 Functional Neurosurgery
- Stereotactic applications in neurosurgery
- Lesioning techniques and methods
- Imaging for stereotactic procedures and planning
- Practical knowledge of how to perform these procedures (hands-on)

Register now and save yourself one of the last places available!
➡️cIONM: https://www.arkana-forum.com/en/medical-education-center/ii-2025-cionm-autofluorescence-imaging-in-thyroid-surgery/
➡️Functional Neurosurgery: https://www.arkana-forum.com/en/medical-education-center/2025-functional-neurosurgery-en/

25/03/2025

🚀 Successful cIONM Course in Mainz!

Our recent course on continuous intraoperative neuromonitoring (cIONM) in Mainz was a great success! With 8 participants from Colombia, the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands, we had insightful discussions and answered many in-depth questions. The international exchange once again highlighted the value of collaboration in intraoperative neurophysiology.

A big thank you to our sponsors cinvivo, inomed, PlantTec, and for the first time, piur, who joined us on-site and supported the course! 💡

14/03/2025

📢Course invitation: IONM in Spinal Surgery 🧑‍⚕️

Deepen your knowledge by joining us for an OR shadowing on-site and practical case discussions!

This hybrid course allows you to attend either online or in person at the University Hospital in Heidelberg.

The first on-site registrations will be granted one of the limited places at the OR shadowing. The online participants will have the opportunity to watch and discuss a video demonstration of a spinal case.

Have a look at the program and save your seat now!

Sophisticated surgical techniques and modern implants enable us to provide surgical treatment for increasingly complex spinal disorders. During these procedures, injuries to the spinal cord and neural structures pose significant risks, potentially leading to serious consequences for the patient. As....