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Motor Evoked Potential☆

open access: yes, 2017
The term “motor evoked potential” (MEP) commonly refers to the action potential elicited by non-invasive (magnetic) stimulation of the motor cortex through the scalp. MEPs can be recorded using surface electromyography from all skeletal muscles and are mediated by fast-conducting cortico-motoneuronal connections projecting monosynaptically to the alpha-
Abbruzzese G., Trompetto C.
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Intraoperative Motor Evoked Potentials

American Journal of Electroneurodiagnostic Technology, 2001
ABSTRACT.Motor impairment is among the most feared and devastating outcomes following major surgery. Traditionally, the “wake-up test” has been used for intraoperative evaluation of motor function, but is associated with a number of limitations such as its general crudeness, common anesthetic risks such as extubation and recall, inadequacy as a ...
Jeffrey Balzer
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Long-term motor deficit in brain tumour surgery with preserved intra-operative motor-evoked potentials [PDF]

open access: yesBrain Communications, 2021
Muscle motor-evoked potentials are commonly monitored during brain tumour surgery in motor areas, as these are assumed to reflect the integrity of descending motor pathways, including the corticospinal tract.
Vincenzo Tramontano   +2 more
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Motor evoked potentials

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America, 2004
Noninvasive electrical stimulation of the human brain first was attempted in the 1950s. In the early 1980s, the first clinical application method of transcranial electrical stimulation was developed. Investigators in the mid-1980s showed that it was possible to stimulate the nerve and the brain using external magnetic stimulation (transcranial magnetic
Young H, Sohn, Mark, Hallett
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Motor-Evoked Potentials

Seminars in Anesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain, 1994
During the last decade, somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP) have become established as a practical method for monitoring the spinal cord during various surgical procedures where there is a risk of paraplegia, e.g., scoliosis surgery, thoracic aortic surgery, and neurosurgical procedures upon the spinal cord. However, it has also become apparent that
O, Keren, H, Ring
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Motor Evoked Potential Warning Criteria in Supratentorial Surgery: A Scoping Review [PDF]

open access: yesCancers, 2021
During intraoperative monitoring of motor evoked potentials (MEP), heterogeneity across studies in terms of study populations, intraoperative settings, applied warning criteria, and outcome reporting exists.
Andreas Raabe   +2 more
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MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIALS

International Anesthesiology Clinics, 1990
A complication resulting from surgery for spinal deformity and certain types of aortic aneurysms is a loss of spinal cord function. In order to detect the intraoperative occurrence of this event, techniques, that monitor spinal cord function are administered.
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Motor Evoked Potentials

2016
Motor evoked potentials (MEP) may be used in the diagnosis of central and peripheral neurological disorders and have become the standard of care in many operative procedures as a means to monitor the motor pathways.In the awake patient, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can be utilized with surface or subcutaneous muscle recordings to identify ...
Jeffrey A. Strommen, Andrea J. Boon
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Motor Evoked Potentials

2013
Iatrogenic injuries are an undesired consequence of surgery, yet iatrogenic injuries to the motor system are much more devastating to a patient’s quality of life than most injuries to the sensory system. Generally an injury to the spinal cord will be most likely be picked up by somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs), yet a focal injury to the anterior
Jay L. Shils, Vedran Deletis
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