48. Somatosensory evoked potentials. Present, past and future

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• 作者：Daniel Sanjuan Orta
• 刊名：Clinical Neurophysiology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：127
• 期：9
• 页码：e313
• 全文大小：34 K

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Somato-sensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) were recorded the first time in healthy humans by G.D. Dawson in 1947. During the next three decades’ extensive research was conducted in determine the role of the neural generators, clinical correlations, effects of the age, and improved of the technology (signal averaging computer, transistors, amplifiers, etc.). These evoked potentials have been studied in patients with neurological diseases since the early 1950s, but it was only in the early 1970s that SSEPs began to have definite clinical utility. The first Society of Evoked Potential born in 1982 in United State and a special section of Evoked Potentials in the IFCN journal was launched in 1991. Currently, the SSEPs are performed daily in Clinical Neurophysiology Labs worldwide, the numbers of scientific publications are approximately 400–500 annually and they are several international guidelines to clinical use. In the future, the SSEPs will continue being used as part of the multimodality approach during intraoperative neurophysiology monitoring in different and new minimal invasive surgical procedures, new SSEPs as steady state contribute to improve the interface brain-machine and allow a better understanding of the somato-sensory cortex and they pathways to neuronal level and their networks.