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Intraoperative somatosensory evoked potentials to facilitate peripheral nerve release.

AbstractPURPOSE:
The significance of intraoperative somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP) monitoring is well known during spinal surgery. This technology could be beneficial during peripheral nerve surgery as well. In order to illustrate potential applications, two cases of successful peripheral nerve release demonstrated by on-line, intraoperative, SSEP are reported. Clinical and technical features: The first case presents a complex brachial plexus lesion involving two mixed sensory-motor nerves: median and ulnar. The second case involved an entrapment neuropathy of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve, a pure sensory nerve (meralgia paresthetica). For each patient we elicited specific peripheral nerve SSEP (recorded using bipolar cephalic montage) by stimulating each nerve independently. In each case, during difficult nerve dissection and after having excluded other possible factors of intraoperative SSEP variations, an increase of the SSEP amplitude was observed, and later correlated with favourable patient clinical outcome.
CONCLUSIONS:
Two cases demonstrate that intraoperative SSEP monitoring may provide an effective tool to guide surgical dissection during peripheral nerve release. This technique has potentially beneficial clinical applications and warrants further investigation.
AuthorsJean Corentin Salengros, Pierre Pandin, Frédéric Schuind, Arlette Vandesteene
JournalCanadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie (Can J Anaesth) Vol. 53 Issue 1 Pg. 40-5 (Jan 2006) ISSN: 0832-610X [Print] United States
PMID16371608 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)
Topics
  • Adult
  • Brachial Plexus (surgery)
  • Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory
  • Femoral Nerve (surgery)
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Monitoring, Intraoperative (methods)
  • Peripheral Nerves (surgery)
  • Peripheral Nervous System Diseases (physiopathology, surgery)

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