Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital 3 articles published in JoVE Medicine Intra-Operative Neural Monitoring of Thyroid Surgery in a Porcine Model Che-Wei Wu1,2,3, Tzu-Yen Huang2, Hui-Chun Chen4, Hsiu-Ya Chen5, Tsung-Yi Tsai2, Pi-Ying Chang5, Yi-Chu Lin2, Hsin-Yi Tseng2, Pao-Chu Hun6, Xiaoli Liu7, Hui Sun7, Gregory W. Randolph8, Gianlorenzo Dionigi9, Feng-Yu Chiang2,3, I-Cheng Lu5,10,11 1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Kaohsiung Municipal Hsiao-Kang Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, 2Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, 3Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, 4Department of Nursing, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, 5Department of Anesthesiology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, 6Laboratory Animal Center, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, 7Department of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery, China-Japan Union Hospital and Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Surgical Translational Medicine, Jilin University, 8Division of Thyroid and Parathyroid Endocrine Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary; Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital; Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, 9Division for Endocrine Surgery, Department of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Child-hood "G. Barresi", University Hospital G. Martino, University of Messina, 10Department of Anesthesiology, Kaohsiung Municipal Hsiao-Kang Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, 11Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University This study aims to develop a standard protocol of intra-operative neural monitoring of thyroid surgery in a porcine model. Here, we present a protocol to demonstrate general anesthesia, to compare different types of electrodes, and to investigate the electrophysiological characteristics of the normal and injured recurrent laryngeal nerves. Medicine Simultaneous Electrocardiography Recording and Invasive Blood Pressure Measurement in Rats Hsin-Ting Lin1,2, Yi-Lin Shiou1, Wun-Jyun Jhuang1, Hsiang-Chun Lee1,3,4,5,6 1Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, 2Hematology and Oncology, China Medical University Hospital, 3Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, 4Center for Lipid Biosciences, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, 5Lipid Science and Aging Research Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, 6Institute/Center of Medical Science and Technology, National Sun Yat-sen University Here, we describe a setup for simultaneous recording of electrocardiography and intra-arterial blood pressure (BP) in experimental rats, which can be done with standard equipment in animal facilities and can be applied to physiological or pharmacological studies to investigate pathogenic or therapeutic mechanisms in cardiovascular medicine. Neuroscience Establishing a Mouse Model of a Pure Small Fiber Neuropathy with the Ultrapotent Agonist of Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid Type 1 Yi-Chen Lee1,2, Shui-Chin Lu3, Yu-Lin Hsieh1,2 1Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, 2Department of Medical Research, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, 3Department of Medical Research, Ultrastructural Laboratory, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital This study establishes an experimental model of pure small fiber neuropathy with resiniferatoxin (RTX). A unique dose of RTX (50 µg/kg) is optimal for developing a small fiber neuropathy model that mimics patient characteristics and could help investigate the nociceptive molecular significance underlying neuropathic pain.