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Intraoperative spinal cord monitoring using motor evoked potentials is a desirable goal, but the sensitivity of most techniques limits their value during anaesthesia. This paper examines the effects of various anaesthetic agents on three different MEP recording techniques in 41 adult cats.
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Toda, Y., Tamaki, T., Taylor, B., Ogawa, R. (1994). The effect of anaesthetic agents on descending spinal cord evoked potential and the compound muscle action potentials elicited by stimulation at the motor cortex and the spinal cord. 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_62
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