Background: Intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) is important for detecting neurological dysfunction, allowing for intervention and reversal of neurological deficits before they become permanent. Of the several IONM modalities, transcranial electrical stimulation of motor-evoked potential (TES-MEP) can help monitor the activity in the pyramidal tract. Surgery- and non-surgery-related factors could result in a TES-MEP alert during surgery. Once the alert occurs, the surgeon should immediately intervene to prevent a neurological complication. However, TES-MEP monitoring does not provide sufficient data to identify the non-surgery-related factors. Therefore, this study aimed to identify and describe these factors among TES-MEP alert cases.
Methods: In this multicenter study, data from 1934 patients who underwent various spinal surgeries for spinal deformities, spinal cord tumors, and ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the spine from 2017 to 2019 were collected. A 70% amplitude reduction was set as the TES-MEP alarm threshold. All surgeries with alerts were categorized into true-positive (TP) and false-positive (FP) cases according to the assessment of immediate postoperative neurological deficits.
Results: In total, TES-MEP alerts were observed in 251 cases during surgery: 62 TP and 189 FP IONM cases. Overall, 158 cases were related to non-surgery-related factors. We observed 22 (35.5%) TP cases and 136 (72%) FP cases, which indicated cases associated with non-surgery-related factors. A significant difference was observed between the two groups regarding factors associated with TES-MEP alerts (p < 0.01). The ratio of TP and FP cases (related to non-surgery-related factors) associated with TES-MEP alerts was 13.9% (22/158 cases) and 86.1% (136/158 cases), respectively.
Conclusions: Non-surgery-related factors are proportionally higher in FP than in TP cases. Although the surgeon should examine surgical procedures immediately after a TES-MEP alert, surgical intervention may not always be the best approach according to the results of this study.
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