Anesthesia During Neurophysiologic Monitoring in Scoliosis Patients

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Conditions studied: Idiopathic Scoliosis

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01549873

Run by

Nationwide Children's Hospital

People needed

30

Starts

2012-01-01

Expected to finish

2013-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-02-26

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients with idiopathic scoliosis.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients with neuromuscular scoliosis.

Where it is running

• Nationwide Children's Hospital — Columbus, Ohio, United States

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