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Monitoring by SCPs During Surgical Operations

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Evoked Spinal Cord Potentials

Abstract

Neurological deficits after spinal cord or spine surgery pose a serious problem. There have been many attempts to monitor spinal cord function during spine or spinal cord surgery by using somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) recorded from the scalp (Grundy and Villani, 1988; Levy et al., 1984). Unfortunately these potentials are susceptible to the effects of anesthetic agents and vary during the course of anesthesia and surgery (McPherson et al., 1985; McPherson and Ducker, 1988; Clark and Rosner, 1973; Samra et al., 1987; McPherson and Levitt, 1991).

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Fujioka, H. et al. (2006). Monitoring by SCPs During Surgical Operations. In: Shimoji, K., Willis, W.D. (eds) Evoked Spinal Cord Potentials. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/4-431-30901-2_12

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