Effect of Mild Hypothermic Cardiopulmonary Bypass on the Amplitude of Somatosensory-evoked Potentials

Abstract

The increased amplitude in particularly of cortical SSEPs (N20/P25), detected specifically during steady-state hypothermia, seems to support the clinical utility of this methodology in monitoring the brain function not only during cardiac surgery with CPB, but also in other settings like therapeutic hypothermia procedures in an intensive care unit.