Effects of dexmedetomidine on intraoperative motor and somatosensory evoked potential monitoring during spinal surgery in adolescents

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1082-1088

  Tobias, Joseph D ^a   Goble, Timothy J ^b   Bates, Guy ^b   Anderson, John T ^a   Hoernschemeyer, Daniel G ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b Sentient Medical Systems Cockeysville   (United States)

Author keywords

Dexmedetomidine; Motor evoked potentials; Posterior spinal fusion; Scoliosis; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Spinal cord monitoring

Indexed keywords

DEXMEDETOMIDINE; MORPHINE; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MONITORING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND CLOSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ANESTHESIA, INTRAVENOUS; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 53349120526     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2008.02733.x     Document Type: Article

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