Showing posts with label Somatosensory evoked potentials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Somatosensory evoked potentials. Show all posts

Friday, 28 September 2012

Somatosensory evoked potentials


In a patient having cortical somatosensory evoked potentials monitoring of spinal cord integrity during spinal surgery, the following may produce important inaccuracies EXCEPT which one?

a) Blood pressure variations
b) Temperature variations
c) Neuromuscular blocking drugs
d) Haemorrhage down to a haemoglobin of 5.5 g/dL
e) Maintenance of anaesthesia with sevoflurane