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The impetus for intraoperative spinal cord monitoring during procedures like Harrington instrumentation for scoliosis, stems from 2 findings: 1) that some patients awaken from surgery with spinal cord dysfunction (Vauzelle et al., 1973; MacEwen et al., 1975), and 2) the problem is usually reversible, providing the rod is removed within a few hours of insertion (MacEwen et al., 1975). This latter observation indicates that whatever the lesion may be, it is not immediately irreversible. Instead, a period of time exists during which the surgeon can both detect that a potentially serious problem is arising and take steps to abort it.
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Spielholz, N.I., Engler, G.L. (1990). The Non-Pathological Variability of Somatosensory-Evoked Potentials. In: Salzman, S.K. (eds) Neural Monitoring. Neurotrauma. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0491-6_10
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