Transcranial electric motor evoked potential monitoring during spine surgery: Is it safe?

Spine

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1046-1049

  Schwartz, Daniel M ^a   Sestokas, Anthony K ^a   Dormans, John P ^b   Vaccaro, Alexander R ^c   Hilibrand, Alan S ^c   Flynn, John M ^b   Li, P Mark ^d   Shah, Suken A ^e   Welch, William ^f   Drummond, Denis S ^b   Albert, Todd J ^c  

^a Surgical Monitoring Associates Inc   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^f PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

repetitive transcranial electric stimulation; safety; spinal cord monitoring; tceMEP; transcranial electric motor evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; LACERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINE SURGERY; TONGUE DISEASE; TRANSCRANIAL ELECTRIC MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LACERATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PHILADELPHIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINE; TONGUE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957846817     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181ecbe77     Document Type: Article

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