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Safety
41.1 Introduction Intraoperative neurophysiology normally improves patient safety, but like any medical procedure it can cause inadvertent harm. This chapter reviews electrical and procedure-specific safety, infection control, and essential performance in terms of potential hazards and their means of protection.…
Continuous dynamic mapping during surgery of large vestibular schwannoma
Abbreviations CMAP compound muscle action potential CN VII cranial nerve VII or facial nerve CPA cerebellopontine angle HBS House–Brackmann score MEP motor-evoked potential VS vestibular schwannoma 23.1 Introduction In vestibular schwannoma (VS) surgery, postoperative facial nerve (CN VII) palsy is…
Neurophysiological identification of long sensory and motor tracts within the spinal cord
12.1 Introduction Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring of the functional integrity of spinal cord (SC) pathways is crucial to prevent, limit, or document the moment of surgically induced injury . The available methods can be divided into monitoring and mapping techniques .…
Cortical and subcortical brain mapping
9.1 Introduction In modern neuro-oncology the two main goals are maximizing the extent of tumor resection to improve survival and avoiding postoperative deficits to improve the quality of life . Therefore tumor resection should be based on functional boundaries rather…