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Anaesthesia and the motor evoked potential

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Handbook of Spinal Cord Monitoring

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Sensory evoked potentials are widely used to monitor the integrity of the spinal cord during scoliosis surgery. Routine monitoring of the somatosensory evoked potential as recorded from the epidural space is relatively insensitive to routinely used anaesthetic agents.

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  1. M. E. Fennelly
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  2. B. A. Taylor
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  3. M. Hetreed
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  1. Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK

    S. J. Jones

  2. Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Brockley Hill, Stanmore Middlesex, HA7 4LP, UK

    M. Hetreed

  3. Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, WC1N 3JH, UK

    S. Boyd

  4. Clinical Neurophysiology Department Queen’s Medical Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK

    N. J. Smith

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Fennelly, M.E., Taylor, B.A., Hetreed, M. (1994). Anaesthesia and the motor evoked potential. 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_39

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