Efficacy of Anal Needle Electrodes for Intraoperative Spinal Cord Monitoring with Transcranial Muscle Action Potentials.

CONCLUSIONS: The significantly higher waveform derivation rate using needle electrodes suggests that these electrodes are effective for monitoring the EAS in spinal surgery in cases with preoperative BBD.
PMID: 30060374 [PubMed]

Source: Asian Spine Journal - August 1, 2018 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Asian Spine J Source Type: research