title: The trigeminal evoked potential: Part I. Long-latency responses in awake or anesthetized subjects.
abstract: Trigeminal evoked potentials have been elicited with differing methodologies that render responses almost as numerous as the number of laboratories reporting them. Forty-six trigeminal nerves were studied to investigate trigeminal evoked potentials in 20 awake, normal subjects and 20 patients undergoing surgery with general anesthesia. A comparison was made between different methods of surface stimulation and subdermal stimulation. It was concluded that these techniques had no practical use in intraoperative monitoring.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Ohio State University, Columbus.
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Stechison
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Kralick
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000768:Anesthesia, General; D001143:Arousal / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D001288:Attention / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D003389:Cranial Nerve Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D003399:Craniotomy; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008866:Microsurgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D014276:Trigeminal Nerve / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery