7/15/2024- Carrie Ford, CNCT, RNSCT, REPT (Emeritus) interviews Peter Grant MD for a podcast on electrodiagnostic (EDX) fraud and abuse. Peter is a fraud and abuse expert for the FBI, Office of Inspector General, US Attorney's Office, private insurers, and state medical boards. In this podcast, Peter explains EDX fraud and how it adversely affects PM&R and Neurology, which includes hand-held devices, billing unnecessary repeat studies, billing unnecessary multiple nerves with EMG,  and mobile diagnostic labs. - 23 min.

4/15/2024 -Drs. Mohamed Taha and John Morren speak with Andy Galbreath about their recent Muscle & Nerve paper on Artificial Intelligence in NM and EDX Medicine.  The authors discuss concepts of machine learning, deep learning, and artificial neural networks as they relate to NM and EDX medicine. Limitations and regulatory challenges are also discussed.  Muscle & Nerve. 2024;69:260-272. 35 min.

• EMG/NCS and Risk of Bleeding
• Needle EMG and the Risk of Pneumothorax
• NM Complications of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
• Percutaneous Sharp Injuries: Primary Prevention
• Safety of Direct Oral Anticoagulants (DOACS) in Needle EMG
• Statins and Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy

4/10/2014-  Electromyographic (EMG) reporting of radiculopathies is not standardized, and the terminology used in reports can be misinterpreted by referring physicians. Physicians who refer patients for EMG studies at the Mayo Clinic were surveyed about their understanding of 6 different EMG interpretations of an S1 radiculopathy. Of 45 responders, the terms “acute, active,” “chronic, inactive,” and “old” were interpreted consistently by 95%, 98%, and 84% of responders, respectively. Physicians had the most difficulty understanding the meaning of “chronic” in isolation, “chronic, active,” or “old with uncompensated denervation.” These findings suggest a need to educate referring physicians on the meaning of the terms used in EMG reports and to develop standard guidelines for qualifying radiculopathies. Based on our observations, guidelines for the reporting of radiculopathies have been adopted in the Mayo Clinic Florida EMG laboratory. Muscle Nerve 49: 129–130, 2014