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Comparing Motor-Evoked Potential Characteristics of NEedle versus suRFACE Recording Electrodes during Spinal Cord Monitoring—The NERFACE Study Part I

Muscle-recorded transcranial electrical stimulation motor-evoked potentials (mTc-MEPs) are used to assess the spinal cord integrity. They are commonly recorded with subcutaneous needle or surface electrodes, but the different characteristics of mTc-MEP signals recorded with the two types of electrod...

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Autores principales: Gadella, Maria C., Dulfer, Sebastiaan E., Absalom, Anthony R., Lange, Fiete, Scholtens-Henzen, Carola H. M., Groen, Rob J. M., Wapstra, Frits H., Faber, Christopher, Tamási, Katalin, Sahinovic, Marko M., Drost, Gea
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9965447/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36835940
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12041404
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author Gadella, Maria C.
Dulfer, Sebastiaan E.
Absalom, Anthony R.
Lange, Fiete
Scholtens-Henzen, Carola H. M.
Groen, Rob J. M.
Wapstra, Frits H.
Faber, Christopher
Tamási, Katalin
Sahinovic, Marko M.
Drost, Gea
author_facet Gadella, Maria C.
Dulfer, Sebastiaan E.
Absalom, Anthony R.
Lange, Fiete
Scholtens-Henzen, Carola H. M.
Groen, Rob J. M.
Wapstra, Frits H.
Faber, Christopher
Tamási, Katalin
Sahinovic, Marko M.
Drost, Gea
author_sort Gadella, Maria C.
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description Muscle-recorded transcranial electrical stimulation motor-evoked potentials (mTc-MEPs) are used to assess the spinal cord integrity. They are commonly recorded with subcutaneous needle or surface electrodes, but the different characteristics of mTc-MEP signals recorded with the two types of electrodes have not been formally compared yet. In this study, mTc-MEPs were simultaneously recorded from the tibialis anterior (TA) muscles using surface and subcutaneous needle electrodes in 242 consecutive patients. Elicitability, motor thresholds, amplitude, area under the curve (AUC), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and the variability between mTc-MEP amplitudes were compared. Whereas amplitude and AUC were significantly higher in subcutaneous needle recordings (p < 0.01), motor thresholds and elicitability were similar for surface and subcutaneous needle recordings. Moreover, the SNRs were >2 in more than 99.5% of the surface and subcutaneous needle recordings, and the variability between consecutive amplitudes was not significantly different between the two recording electrode types (p = 0.34). Surface electrodes appear to be a good alternative to needle electrodes for spinal cord monitoring. They are non-invasive, can record signals at similar threshold intensities, have adequately high SNRs, and record signals with equivalent variability. Whether surface electrodes are non-inferior to subcutaneous needle electrodes in detecting motor warnings is investigated in part II of the NERFACE study.
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spelling pubmed-99654472023-02-26 Comparing Motor-Evoked Potential Characteristics of NEedle versus suRFACE Recording Electrodes during Spinal Cord Monitoring—The NERFACE Study Part I Gadella, Maria C. Dulfer, Sebastiaan E. Absalom, Anthony R. Lange, Fiete Scholtens-Henzen, Carola H. M. Groen, Rob J. M. Wapstra, Frits H. Faber, Christopher Tamási, Katalin Sahinovic, Marko M. Drost, Gea J Clin Med Article Muscle-recorded transcranial electrical stimulation motor-evoked potentials (mTc-MEPs) are used to assess the spinal cord integrity. They are commonly recorded with subcutaneous needle or surface electrodes, but the different characteristics of mTc-MEP signals recorded with the two types of electrodes have not been formally compared yet. In this study, mTc-MEPs were simultaneously recorded from the tibialis anterior (TA) muscles using surface and subcutaneous needle electrodes in 242 consecutive patients. Elicitability, motor thresholds, amplitude, area under the curve (AUC), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and the variability between mTc-MEP amplitudes were compared. Whereas amplitude and AUC were significantly higher in subcutaneous needle recordings (p < 0.01), motor thresholds and elicitability were similar for surface and subcutaneous needle recordings. Moreover, the SNRs were >2 in more than 99.5% of the surface and subcutaneous needle recordings, and the variability between consecutive amplitudes was not significantly different between the two recording electrode types (p = 0.34). Surface electrodes appear to be a good alternative to needle electrodes for spinal cord monitoring. They are non-invasive, can record signals at similar threshold intensities, have adequately high SNRs, and record signals with equivalent variability. Whether surface electrodes are non-inferior to subcutaneous needle electrodes in detecting motor warnings is investigated in part II of the NERFACE study. MDPI 2023-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9965447/ /pubmed/36835940 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12041404 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Gadella, Maria C.
Dulfer, Sebastiaan E.
Absalom, Anthony R.
Lange, Fiete
Scholtens-Henzen, Carola H. M.
Groen, Rob J. M.
Wapstra, Frits H.
Faber, Christopher
Tamási, Katalin
Sahinovic, Marko M.
Drost, Gea
Comparing Motor-Evoked Potential Characteristics of NEedle versus suRFACE Recording Electrodes during Spinal Cord Monitoring—The NERFACE Study Part I
title Comparing Motor-Evoked Potential Characteristics of NEedle versus suRFACE Recording Electrodes during Spinal Cord Monitoring—The NERFACE Study Part I
title_full Comparing Motor-Evoked Potential Characteristics of NEedle versus suRFACE Recording Electrodes during Spinal Cord Monitoring—The NERFACE Study Part I
title_fullStr Comparing Motor-Evoked Potential Characteristics of NEedle versus suRFACE Recording Electrodes during Spinal Cord Monitoring—The NERFACE Study Part I
title_full_unstemmed Comparing Motor-Evoked Potential Characteristics of NEedle versus suRFACE Recording Electrodes during Spinal Cord Monitoring—The NERFACE Study Part I
title_short Comparing Motor-Evoked Potential Characteristics of NEedle versus suRFACE Recording Electrodes during Spinal Cord Monitoring—The NERFACE Study Part I
title_sort comparing motor-evoked potential characteristics of needle versus surface recording electrodes during spinal cord monitoring—the nerface study part i
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9965447/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36835940
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12041404
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