• Anesthesiology clinics · Mar 2014

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    Neuromonitoring for scoliosis surgery.

    • Chris D Glover and Nicholas P Carling.
    • Department of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, 6621 Fannin Street, Suite A3300, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Electronic address: chris.glover@bcm.edu.
    • Anesthesiol Clin. 2014 Mar 1; 32 (1): 101-14.

    AbstractThe use of intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) during pediatric scoliosis repair has become commonplace to reduce the risk of potentially devastating postoperative neurologic deficits. IONM techniques include somatosensory evoked potentials, motor evoked potentials, electromyography, and intraoperative wake-up tests. Special considerations for scoliosis repair in pediatric patients include preexisting neurologic deficits and young patients with immature neural pathways in whom neurophysiologic monitoring may prove difficult or unreliable.Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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