Anesthesia During Neurophysiologic Monitoring in Scoliosis Patients
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2013-06-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
When patients have spinal surgery, electrodes are placed on the body to measure motor evoked
potentials (MEP) and somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP). Many hospitals only use IV
anesthesia because they feel that measuring MEP and SSEP is easier using IV anesthesia. At
this hospital the investigators typically use inhaled anesthesia and are able to successfully
measure MEP and SSEP. This is a study to find out if one method of anesthesia is better than
the other for measuring MEP and SSEP.