Monitoring of flash visual evoked potentials during neurosurgical operations.
In summary, our results suggest that flash VEP monitoring is not specific for visual acuity and has not proved helpful as an intraoperative warning system. The future challenge will be to devise a method which activates only those fibers specific to visual acuity and which provides reproducible and reliable information quickly enough that adjustments in patient management can be made.
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Bonn, West Germany.
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D000768:Anesthesia, General; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods