Anesthesia and Motor Evoked Potential (MEP) Recruitment

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Idiopathic Scoliosis

In brief

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

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02199314

Run by

Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

People needed

30

Starts

2013-03-01

Expected to finish

2017-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-09-22

Who can join

Age: 12 and older, up to 17. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 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

You may not qualify if…

• 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

Where it is running

• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

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