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In this chapter, I will encourage readers to take a broad view of spinal cord monitoring and, with the aid of three case histories, indicate some lessons learned, some yet to be grasped and some directions for future investigation. This kind of ‘thought’ experiment is unusual in biological science but in physics a whole branch is devoted to it. Einstein was a master of thought experiments both for developing new ideas — the theories of relativity — and for teaching and training the scientific mind. It seems appropriate to look at the wider content of spinal cord monitoring and a scan through the titles in this volume gives eloquent testimony to the variety of activities undertaken in this field.
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Sedgwick, E.M. (1994). Lessons from spinal cord monitoring. In: Jones, S.J., Hetreed, M., Boyd, S., Smith, N.J. (eds) Handbook of Spinal Cord Monitoring. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1416-5_6
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