Open AccessThe Recognition, Incidence, and Management of Spinal Cord Monitoring Alerts in Early-onset Scoliosis Surgery
Author(s) -
Jonathan H. Phillips,
Robert C. Palmer,
Denise Lopez,
D. Raymond Knapp,
José A. Herrera-Soto,
Michael R. Isley
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of pediatric orthopaedics/journal of pediatric orthopedics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.318
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1539-2570
pISSN - 0271-6798
DOI - 10.1097/bpo.0000000000000795
Subject(s) - medicine , somatosensory evoked potential , intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring , retrospective cohort study , incidence (geometry) , spinal cord , limiting , scoliosis , idiopathic scoliosis , cohort , surgery , anesthesia , mechanical engineering , physics , psychiatry , optics , engineering
The objective of the research was to study the relevance of intraoperative neuromonitoring throughout all stages of surgical management in patients with progressive early-onset scoliosis (EOS).The routine monitoring of spinal cord potentials has gradually become standard of practice among spinal surgeons. However, there is not a consensus that the added expense of this technique necessitates monitoring in all stages of surgical management.