Standardization of Evoked Potential Recording

Abstract

There exists in the application of evoked potential monitoring today such a variety of techniques that it is virtually impossible for any one group to directly compare their results with those obtained from any other group. This is due in large part to the number of different systems, both in-house designs and commercial, that are in use today. Even among the commercial systems so many different settings are available to the end user that generally no two groups utilize exactly the same set-up procedures on their instrumentation. Additionally, the specific choices allowed often differ considerably from one manufacturer to another with the use of non-standard in-house designs further compounding this problem.