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Invasive Somatosensory-Evoked Potential Monitoring

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Somatosensory-evoked potentials (SEPs) have been used for monitoring spinal cord integrity during surgery for more than a decade. Early detection of significant changes in the SEPs may indicate early and reversible spinal cord dysfunction, thus permitting appropriate measures to be taken to prevent irreversible spinal cord damage. Intraoperative spinal cord damage usually results form ischemia, mechanical effects of compression or distraction, or both.

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    Dudley S. Dinner M. D., M. D. Hans Luders M. D., Ph.D., Ronald P. Lesser M. D., Harold H. Morris III M. D., Gene Barnett M. D. & George Klem (R. Eeg. T)

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Dinner, D.S., Luders, M.D.H., Lesser, R.P., Morris, H.H., Barnett, G., Klem, G. (1990). Invasive Somatosensory-Evoked Potential Monitoring. In: Salzman, S.K. (eds) Neural Monitoring. Neurotrauma. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0491-6_9

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