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In 1977 Nash and coworkers (Nash et al., 1977) reported on the use of cortical somatosensory-evoked potentials to monitor spinal cord function during (orthopedic) spinal surgery. Over the following 13 years, tre somatosensory-evoked potential (SEP) has become the preferred method of routinely monitoring spinal cord function during spinal surgery. In both research and clinical forums, it has been found that SEPs are sensitive to anatomical compression (Kojima et al., 1979), edema and ischemia (Kobrine et al., 1976) of the spinal cord. In fact, the SEP has been so reliable in detecting central nervous system ischemic dysfunction that it is presently being used to monitor carotid endarterectomy (Markand et al., 1984), aortic surgery (Kaplan et al., 1986) and aneurysm procedures (Symon et a 1 ., 1984; Friedman et al . , 1987) .
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Marks, H.G., Beauchamp, J., Salzman, S.K. (1990). Reliability of Cortical Somatosensory-Evoked Potentials in Monitoring (Pediatric Orthopedic) Spinal Procedures. In: Salzman, S.K. (eds) Neural Monitoring. Neurotrauma. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0491-6_8
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