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Monitoring Somatosensory Evoked Potentials

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Intraoperative recordings of somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP) were recorded among the earliest used electrophysiological methods for monitoring function of the spinal cord, and for that matter, of any neurological system. Orthopedics was the first specialty of surgery where this method was used, beginning in the 1970s in operations for scoliosis (1–3).

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    The effect of different anesthetic agents is often described by their “mean alveolar concentration” (MAC), which is the concentration that induces anesthesia in an average person (50% of the recipients move, in response to incision).

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