Evoked potential monitoring identifies possible neurological injury during positioning for craniotomy

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 817-821

  Anastasian, Zirka H ^a   Ramnath, Brian ^a   Komotar, Ricardo J ^a   Bruce, Jeffrey N ^a   Sisti, Michael B ^a   Gallo, Edward J ^a   Emerson, Ronald G ^a   Heyer, Eric J ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARM; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE COURSE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; MEDIAN NERVE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTERIOR TIBIAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPINE POSITION; ANESTHESIOLOGY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

AGED; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 70149090207     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181b086bd     Document Type: Article

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