Improving successful rate of transcranial electrical motor-evoked potentials monitoring during spinal surgery in young children

Introduction This prospective study was to investigate the successful rate of intraoperative motor evoked potentials (MEP) monitoring for children ( 0.05). As well, no difference in MEP successful rates was observed in two groups with different anesthetic techniques. No wake-up test and no post-operative neurological deficits occurred in this series of patients. Conclusion Low dose anesthesia by either TIVA with propofol or sevoflurane-based mixture anesthesia protocol can help the intraoperative spinal cord monitoring to successfully elicit MEP and perform reliable monitoring for patients below 12 years of age.