Anesthesia During Neurophysiologic Monitoring in Scoliosis Patients

Category Primary study
Registry of Trialsclinicaltrials.gov
Year 2012
When patients have spinal surgery, electrodes are placed on the body to measure motor evoked potentials (MEP) and somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP). Many hospitals only use IV anesthesia because they feel that measuring MEP and SSEP is easier using IV anesthesia. At this hospital the investigators typically use inhaled anesthesia and are able to successfully measure MEP and SSEP. This is a study to find out if one method of anesthesia is better than the other for measuring MEP and SSEP.
Epistemonikos ID: 09f99a867232f501cc6fd758031725bf6699fc7c
First added on: May 10, 2024