Significance and cost-effectiveness of somatosensory evoked potential monitoring in cervical spine surgery

Neurology India

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 424-428

  Ayoub, Chakib ^a   Zreik, Tony ^a   Sawaya, Raja ^a   Domloj, Nathalie ^a   Sabbagh, Amira ^a   Skaf, Ghassan ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Cervical spine surgery; healthcare costs; somatosensory evoked potential monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; CAUTERIZATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATION; PATIENT MONITORING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; SPINE SURGERY; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CERVICAL SPINE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISKECTOMY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77955085152     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.66454     Document Type: Article

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