- Docente: Fabio Pizza
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/26
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Neurophysiopathology techniques (cod. 8482)
Learning outcomes
To acquire the knowledge and the ability to understand electrophysiological changes during Neurosurgery interventions.
Course contents
- Usefulness of the neurophysiopathology methods applied in neurosurgery: history, clinical impact, future perspectives
- Somatosensory evoked potentials (by stimulation of median nerve, of posterior tibial nerve, technical variables, applicability, warning criteria, phase reversal)
- Motor evoked potentials (transcranial electrical stimulation - TES; single-stimulus technique - eMEPs; stimulus-train technique -mMEPs; combined use eMEP / mMEPs; warning criteria; direct cortical stimulation techniques)
- Acoustic evoked potentials (generators, pathophysiology of intraoperative modifications, auditory function monitoring)
- Other methods (EMG free run, triggered EMG, nerve action potential, brainstem mapping, non-selective spinal cord stimulation methods)
- Hypothesis of intraoperative protocols (spinal surgery, subtentorial surgery, supratentorial surgery)
Readings/Bibliography
Principles of Neurophysiological Assessment, Mapping, and Monitoring 2014 edition published by Springer (2013) Paperback. Alan David Kaye and Scott Francis Davis.
Teaching methods
Lessons with use of powerpoint
Assessment methods
Written exam with multiple choice questions
Teaching tools
Slide summary
Office hours
See the website of Fabio Pizza
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.