Table 3. The importance of documentation in thyroid surgery. Documentation is required and includes pre-existing laryngeal or RLN impairment, intraoperative and postoperative findings. Nural monitoring records nerve signal for early differentiation between RLN related and unrelated voice changes.

No.	Pre-operative	Intra-operative	Post-operative
1	Patient thyroid history	Surgical report	Laryngeal examination
		● Intraoperative findings
		● Idetification of RLN
2	Pre-operative imaging	Pictures	Follow-up
3	Patient symptoms	Video
4	Pre-operative laryngeal examination	Neural monitoring