Neuroanesthesia & neurocritical care
Reduction of the acquisition time needed to obtain somatosensory evoked potentials by estimation of the required averaging sweep count by an algorithm
Authors' conclusion
The proposed algorithm allowed sweep count and acquisition time reduction in roughly 90% of all patients for mSEPs and in 70% of all patients for tSEPs.
Study context
- Population
- Patients undergoing spinal surgery with intraoperative SEP monitoring, Department of Neurosurgery
- Participants
- 30 patients
- Exposure
- Algorithm-determined minimal sweep count vs standard 200 sweeps
- mSEPsn = 15
- tSEPsn = 15
- Outcome
- Median necessary sweep count to obtain reproducible evoked potentials (below 200)
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Required sweep count
| Group | Value | Mean sweep count |
|---|---|---|
| mSEPs | 93.3% | 56 ± 51 |
| tSEPs | 73.3% | 106 ± 70 |
Value
mSEPs93.3%
tSEPs73.3%
Mean sweep count
mSEPs56 ± 51
tSEPs106 ± 70
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Calculated mean time to average the potentials
- mSEPs: reduced from 48.8s to 13.7s
- tSEPs: reduced from 48.8s to 25.9s
Original publication
Reduction of the acquisition time needed to obtain somatosensory evoked potentials by estimation of the required averaging sweep count by an algorithm. J Clin Monit Comput. Published 11 September 2024. doi:10.
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