The use of somatosensory evoked potentials to determine the relationship between patient positioning and impending upper extremity nerve injury during spine surgery: A retrospective analysis

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1538-1542

  Kamel, Ihab R ^a,b   Drum, Elizabeth T ^a   Koch, Stephen A ^a   Whitten, Joseph A ^a   Gaughan, John P ^a   Barnette, Rodger E ^a   Wendling, Woodrow W ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; DECUBITUS; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE FUNCTION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE SURGERY; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 33646170947     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000198666.11523.d6     Document Type: Article

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