Anesthesia and Motor Evoked Potential (MEP) Recruitment

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Test the hypothesis to recruit larger motor responses to transcranial stimulation.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Desflurane; Isoflurane

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age 12 through 17 years

• Diagnosis of idiopathic scoliosis

• Scheduled for posterior spinal fusion with neurophysiological monitoring

• No known allergies to propofol or remifentanil

• No contraindication to total intravenous anesthesia

• No contraindications to the administration of volatile agents

Exclusion Criteria:

• Failure to consent or assent to study

• Diagnosis other than idiopathic scoliosis

• Poorly controlled seizures or the presence of a cochlear implant

• Patient history or family history of malignant hypothermia or mitochondrial myopathies