Handbook of Spinal Cord Monitoring: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Spinal Cord Monitoring, London, UK, June 2–5, 1992

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Somatosensory evoked potentials and their use for spinal cord monitoring....Pages 3-20
Human spinal cord potentials recorded from the epidural space....Pages 21-36
Indications for the use of evoked potentials in spinal surgery — review of the Nottingham experience and current use....Pages 37-43
Anaesthetic requirements for spinal surgery and effective cord monitoring....Pages 44-58
Application of intraoperative spinal cord monitoring to neurosurgery....Pages 59-70
Lessons from spinal cord monitoring....Pages 71-77
A multicentre survey of spinal cord monitoring outcome....Pages 78-87
Round Table Debate on International Spinal Cord Monitoring Practice....Pages 88-88
Present status of spinal cord monitoring in Japan....Pages 89-91
Spinal cord monitoring in the UK....Pages 92-93
General perception of the usefulness and failings of spinal cord monitoring. The U.C.L. experience....Pages 94-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Spinal cord evoked potentials in cervical and thoracic myelopathy....Pages 99-103
Spinal cord evoked potentials in spinal cord intermittent claudication....Pages 104-109
Somatosensory cerebral potentials evoked by paraspinal stimulation: an approach to spinal cord monitoring....Pages 110-116
The effect of changes in epidural temperature on spinal evoked potentials during scoliosis surgery....Pages 117-124
Threatened spinal cord damage due to Luque’s wires....Pages 125-129
Comparison of common peroneal and posterior tibial nerve stimulation for routine spinal cord monitoring during surgical correction of scoliosis....Pages 130-134
An explanation of the high ‘false-positive’ rate of lower-limb SEPs in descending aorta surgery....Pages 135-145
Decomposition of spinal cord evoked potentials into propagating and stationary components....Pages 146-152
An atlas of human spinal cord evoked potentials....Pages 153-157
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
A multichannel planar epidural electrode for spinal cord monitoring....Pages 158-160
Somatosensory evoked potentials (EPs) during anterior and posterior spinal surgery....Pages 161-166
Spinal cord monitoring with a new device for automated signal analysis....Pages 167-170
Evaluation of peroperative sensory evoked potentials recorded from nerve roots to the cervical epidural space during brachial plexus surgery....Pages 171-178
Automated spinal cord monitoring system with multimodal evoked potentials....Pages 179-183
Pain-related somatosensory evoked potentials following CO 2 laser stimulation in myelopathy....Pages 184-191
Level diagnosis of cervical myelopathy using somatosensory evoked potentials....Pages 192-196
Spinal cord monitoring during surgery for intramedullary spinal cord tumours....Pages 197-204
Graded risk levels of somatosensory evoked potentials during scoliosis surgery....Pages 205-209
Intraoperative spinal cord monitoring with spino-spinal evoked potentials....Pages 210-215
Monitoring cortical evoked potentials (EPs) in operations on the cervical spine....Pages 216-221
A computer simulation of conduction block — conduction block induced augmentation and killed-end potential....Pages 222-230
Quantifying the SSEP — the area under the curve....Pages 231-236
The effects of propofol and nitrous oxide on median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials during fentanyl anaesthesia....Pages 237-243
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Effects of anaesthesia on the EEG — bispectral analysis correlates with movement....Pages 247-252
H-reflex spinal cord monitoring during vertebral column stabilization surgery....Pages 253-258
Central motor conduction time to upper versus lower extremities....Pages 259-265
Do neurogenic lesions of the spinal cord generate distinctive features of the epidurally recorded motor evoked potential?....Pages 266-271
Anaesthesia and the motor evoked potential....Pages 272-276
A method to assess the effect of neuromuscular blocking agents on the spinal motor evoked potential during spinal surgery....Pages 277-280
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Defining reliable anaesthetic protocols for intraoperative monitoring of transcranial magnetic motor evoked potentials....Pages 281-285
Transcranial magnetic stimulation for spinal cord monitoring....Pages 286-293
Evaluation of motor pathways in patients with cervical myelopathy by magnetic stimulation: pre-, intra-, and postoperative study....Pages 294-300
An attempt at noninvasive mapping of the human motor cortex using transcranial magnetic stimulation....Pages 301-311
Separation of upper and lower extremity components of the corticospinal MEP (D-wave) recorded at the cervical level....Pages 312-320
Changes in the corticospinal MEP (D-wave) during microsurgical removal of intramedullary spinal cord tumours: experience in 16 cases....Pages 321-326
Ketamine anaesthesia allows recording of muscle responses to magnetic cortical stimulation: an electrophysiological study in man....Pages 327-333
Long-term and quantitative assessment of spinal cord motor function by motor evoked potentials....Pages 334-339
Correlation of clinical, radiological and electrophysiological (MEP) findings in cervical myelopathy....Pages 340-345
Recording of myogenic motor evoked potentials (mMEP) under general anaesthesia using a train of transcranial electric stimuli....Pages 346-352
Electromyography of paravertebral muscles for evaluation of spinal disorders....Pages 353-361
Differential effect of isoflurane on motor evoked potentials elicited by transcortical electric or magnetic stimulation....Pages 362-367
Temporal summation and motor evoked potential spinal cord monitoring in man....Pages 368-375
Near maximal transcranial magnetic motor evoked potentials during surgery....Pages 376-382
Rapid changes in killed-end corticospinal MEP in patients with acute spinal cord injury....Pages 383-390
Front Matter....Pages 391-391
Electrophysiological phenomena recorded from spinal cord slice preparation in the adult rat....Pages 393-397
Transcranial magnetic motor evoked potentials recorded from the spinal cord in cats: normal waves and spinal cord injuries....Pages 398-406
 In vitro animal study of the spinal cord evoked potentials....Pages 407-411
Comparison of spinal evoked potentials by transcranial magnetic and electrical stimulation — a canine study....Pages 412-418
Comparison between descending segmental evoked spinal cord potentials and conductive evoked spinal cord potentials under acute spinal cord compression....Pages 419-425
Front Matter....Pages 391-391
Refractory period of motor evoked potentials and spinal cord evoked potentials in the cat....Pages 426-432
The effect of anaesthetic agents on descending spinal cord evoked potential and the compound muscle action potentials elicited by stimulation at the motor cortex and the spinal cord....Pages 433-437
Acute motor evoked potential changes following spinal cord ischaemia in the rat....Pages 438-443
Back Matter....Pages 445-450