Handbook of Spinal Cord Monitoring

Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Spinal Cord Monitoring, London, UK, June 2-5, 1992
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-94-010-4619-0
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 709 g

Surgery for the treatment of deformities such as scoliosis carries a small but significant risk of damage to the spinal cord through inadvertent compression or interference with the blood supply. Electrophysiological techniques, principally those for recording sensory and motor evoked potentials, offer a means of continuously assessing the conduction of nerve signals up and down the spinal cord and hence the possibility of detecting a defect at an early stage, when the cause may be reversible. This form of monitoring is now accepted practice in many countries.
The main contributors to the are surgeons, neurophysiologists and anaesthetists at the forefront of research. From the United States, where practice has been most widespread, come the results of the first large-scale, multi-centre survey into monitoring methods and their effectiveness. The research papers forming the remainder of the text provide an indication of the high level of current interest and the likely direction of future developments.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, S. J.

Smith, N. J.

Boyd, S.

Hetreed, M.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Invited Chapters.- Somatosensory and spinal cord evoked potential studies in humans.- Studies of the human motor system.- Animal studies.- Index of Authors by Chapter Number.