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Anaesthetic requirements for spinal surgery and effective cord monitoring

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Handbook of Spinal Cord Monitoring

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The main issue to be addressed is the effect of general anaesthetics on the quality of the somatosensory evoked potentials recorded from the scalp during major spine surgery (i.e. cortical somatosensory evoked potentials [C-SSEPs]). Although many clinical neurophysiological teams utilize other techniques (e.g. recording at ‘lower’ levels such as spinal cord or brain stem), many others continue to find it useful to stimulate peripheral nerves and record from scalp (i.e. ‘cortical’) sites. The comparative success rate of various sensory evoked potential techniques (e.g. cortical versus brainstem) and the relative roles of sensory and motor evoked potentials are beyond the scope of this presentation.

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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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Frazier, W.T. (1994). Anaesthetic requirements for spinal surgery and effective cord monitoring. 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_4

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