Motor and Somatosensory Evoked Potentials

  • Shine T
  • Harrison B
  • De Ruyter M
  • et al.
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BACKGROUND Paraplegia is a devastating complication for patients undergoing repair of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms. A monitor to detect spinal cord ischemia is necessary if anesthesiologists are to intervene to protect the spinal cord during aortic aneurysm clamping. METHODS The medical records of 60 patients who underwent thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair with regional lumbar epidural cooling with evoked potential monitoring were reviewed. The authors analyzed latency and amplitude of motor evoked potentials, somatosensory evoked potentials, and H reflexes before cooling and clamping, after cooling and before clamping, during clamping, and after release of aortic cross clamp. RESULTS Twenty minutes after the aortic cross clamp was placed, motor evoked potentials had 88% sensitivity and 65% specificity in predicting spinal cord ischemia. The negative predictive value of motor evoked potentials at 20 min after aortic cross clamping was 96%. CONCLUSIONS Rapid loss of motor evoked potentials or H reflexes after application of the aortic cross clamp identifies a subgroup of patients who are at high risk of developing spinal cord ischemia and in whom aggressive anesthetic and surgical interventions may be justified.

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Shine, T. S. J., Harrison, B. A., De Ruyter, M. L., Crook, J. E., Heckman, M., Daube, J. R., … Murray, M. J. (2008). Motor and Somatosensory Evoked Potentials. Anesthesiology, 108(4), 580–587. https://doi.org/10.1097/aln.0b013e318168d921

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