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Neuromonitoring in the Pediatric Patient

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It is a truism that children are not just little adults. When a child comes for a surgical procedure, there are often additional pressures compared to an adult. For the neuromonitoring team involved in the care of a child, there are concerns and challenges related to the case that are pediatric-specific. In this chapter, the unique features of the pediatric patient and some surgical procedures that are pediatric-specific (or more common in the pediatric population) are considered. Although pediatrics is an important part of medicine and surgery, there are few textbooks on the neurophysiology of this population and even fewer on surgical neurophysiology.

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  1. Royal University Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

    Jonathan A. Norton

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Scott Francis Davis

  2. Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Neurosciences, LSU School of Medicine, Shreveport, LA, USA

    Alan David Kaye

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    What are two anesthetic considerations when monitoring the pediatric patient?

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    If the monitorist is having difficulty obtaining MEP recordings in the pediatric patient, what might they try?

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    Why are MEPs harder to obtain in young children?

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    What precautions should be taken when placing scalp electrodes in the pediatric patient?

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Norton, J.A. (2020). Neuromonitoring in the Pediatric Patient. In: Davis, S., Kaye, A. (eds) Principles of Neurophysiological Assessment, Mapping, and Monitoring. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22400-4_19

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