Handbook of Spinal Cord Monitoring

Handbook of Spinal Cord Monitoring

Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Spinal Cord Monitoring, London, UK, June 2-5, 1992

Herausgegeben: Jones, S. J.; Boyd, S.; Hetreed, M.; Smith, N. J.
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Surgery for the treatment of deformities such as scoliosis carries a small but significant risk of damage to the spinal cord through inadvertent compression or interference with the blood supply. Electrophysiological techniques, principally those for recording sensory and motor evoked potentials, offer a means of continuously assessing the conduction of nerve signals up and down the spinal cord and hence the possibility of detecting a defect at an early stage, when the cause may be reversible. This form of monitoring is now accepted practice in many countries. The main contributors to the Hand...