Handbook of Spinal Cord Monitoring: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Spinal Cord Monitoring, London, UK, June 2-5, 1992 / Edition 1

by S.J. Jones, S. Boyd, M. Hetreed, N.J. Smith

Overview

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 Handbook 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792388333
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/31/1993
Edition description:	1994
Pages:	450
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

‘This book is recommended, for its first part, to beginners in neuromonitoring, orthopaedic surgeons and neurosurgeons and, for its next three parts, to specialists in spinal cord monitoring.'
Acta Neurologica Belgica, 95:1, 1995

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