Clinical Evoked Potentials

This book covers all aspects of evoked potentials (EPs) utilized clinically in evaluating the functional integrity of somatosensory, auditory, motor, and visual pathways in the nervous system. It explores techniques needed to correctly perform EPs, and discusses these clinical neurophysiological tests that are performed in academic institutions and large community hospitals. Concise and comprehensive, this case-study rich text is divided into five chapters. Beginning with basic principles of evoked potential recording, the first chapter discusses signal enhancement and limitations of signal averaging. Chapter two then provides an overview of brainstem auditory EPs. Subsequent chapters then present visual EPs and somatosensory evoked potentials. Finally, the book concludes with clinical applications of transcranial magnetic stimulation, as well as a brief discussion of the techniques of transcranial electrical motor evoked potentials during intraoperative monitoring.

Clinical Evoked Potentials: An Illustrated Manual functions as an essential reference for neurologists neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists, clinical neurophysiologists, and EP technologists, who are involved with the recording and interpretation of EPs primarily for diagnostic purposes.

Describes fully and with numerous illustrations the evoked potential (EP) abnormalities in major neurologic disorders Provides easy to understand the clinical significance of normal and abnormal EPs for practicing neurologists and other referring physicians Provides relevant technical information on performing EPs and how to modify the technique to obtain maximum and clinically relevant information from the procedure Includes actual case studies of the EP abnormalities and describes a concise method of writing appropriate EP reports for the referring physicians

Autorentext

Omkar N. Markand

Department of Neurology

Indiana University School of Medicine

Indianapolis, IN, USA

Inhalt

1. Basic Techniques Of Evoked Potential Recording.- 2. Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials.- 3. Visual Evoked Potentials.- 4. Somatosensory Evoked Potentials.- 5. Motor Evoked Potentials.