Use of Somatosensory Evoked Potentials for Intraoperative Monitoring of Cerebral and Spinal Cord Function

1988 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 881-897 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc R. Nuwer
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Evoked Potentials ◽  
Somatosensory Evoked Potentials ◽  
Intraoperative Monitoring ◽  
Spinal Cord Function

Intraoperative Loss of Somatosensory-evoked Potentials Predicts Loss of Spinal Cord Function

1982 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 321-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
BETTY L. GRUNDY ◽  
PAUL B. NELSON ◽  
EARL DOYLE ◽  
PHYLLIS T. PROCOPIO
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Evoked Potentials ◽  
Somatosensory Evoked Potentials ◽  
Spinal Cord Function

Conducted somatosensory evoked potentials during spinal surgery

1982 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
James B. Macon ◽  
Charles E. Poletti ◽  
William H. Sweet ◽  
Robert G. Ojemann ◽  
Nicholas T. Zervas
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Evoked Potentials ◽  
Conduction Velocity ◽  
Somatosensory Evoked Potentials ◽  
Spinal Surgery ◽  
Dorsal Column ◽  
Operative Field ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Spinal Lesions ◽  
Spinal Cord Function

✓ In 27 patients undergoing laminectomy, spinal cord function was monitored by epidural bipolar recordings of conducted spinal somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP's) across the laminectomy site, with calculation of spinal conduction velocity (CV). In control cases without myelopathy, the CV remained relatively constant (± 3%) even during prolonged operations, despite markedly changing levels of anesthesia. Acute CV changes were detected intraoperatively in three cases: these patients displayed improvement after extramedullary (Case 1) and intramedullary decompression (Case 2), and deterioration after direct unilateral dorsal column injury (Case 3). These intraoperative CV alterations correlated postoperatively with changes in the neurological examination. Although a unilateral lesion confined to the dorsal column abolished the ipsilateral SEP in Case 3, complete anterior quadrant lesions did not consistently change the CV (Case 4). This further suggests that the SEP is generated entirely by ipsilateral dorsal column activation. Accurate measurement of this dorsal column conduction velocity across the operative field provides a very sensitive means of monitoring spinal cord function during operations for neurosurgical spinal lesions.

scholarly journals Regional Hypothermia Inhibits Spinal Cord Somatosensory-Evoked Potentials without Neural Damage in Uninjured Rats

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (15) ◽  
pp. 1325-1333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ning Li ◽  
Lei Tian ◽  
Wei Wu ◽  
Huchen Lu ◽  
Yuan Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Evoked Potentials ◽  
Somatosensory Evoked Potentials ◽  
Neural Damage

Slope analysis of somatosensory evoked potentials in spinal cord injury for detecting contusion injury and focal demyelination

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 1159-1164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gracee Agrawal ◽  
David Sherman ◽  
Anil Maybhate ◽  
Michael Gorelik ◽  
Douglas A. Kerr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Spinal Cord Injury ◽  
Evoked Potentials ◽  
Somatosensory Evoked Potentials ◽  
Slope Analysis ◽  
Cord Injury ◽  
Contusion Injury ◽  
Focal Demyelination
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