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During a six-year period spinal cord monitoring has been done on a total of 121 cases during spinal fixation. In 105 cases (104 of which were idiopathic scoliosis) a post-operative neurological assessment was recorded and these were analysed for intra-operative monitoring events. A monitoring event is defined as a fall in the epidurally recorded potential to 50% or less of the original amplitude which could not be attributed to technical causes and about which the surgeon was informed.
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Gale, A.J., Sedgwick, E.M., Jackson, R. (1994). Threatened spinal cord damage due to Luque’s wires. In: Jones, S.J., Hetreed, M., Boyd, S., Smith, N.J. (eds) Handbook of Spinal Cord Monitoring. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1416-5_16
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