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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 3 Sensitivity and specificity of intraoperative monitoring

From: Should evoked potential monitoring be used in degenerative cervical spine surgery? A systematic review

Study name

Year

No. of patients

IOM change

MEP change

SSEP change

Sensitivity and specificity (SSEP)

Sensitivity and specificity (MEP)

No. of new neurological deficits

Plata Bello et al.

2015

75

5 (6.6%)

5

2

(40%; 100%)

(100%; 100%)

–

Appel et al.

2017

381

9 (2.3%)

7

2

(22%; 100%)

(78%; 100%)

2

Hilibrand et al.

2004

427

15 (3.5%)

12

3

(25%; 100%)

(100%; 100%)

2

Sakaki et al.

2012

357

196 (55%)

196

–

–

(100%; 83.2%)

0

Oya et al.

2017

135

12 (8.9%)

12

0

–

(100%; 98.4%)

–

  1. IOM intraoperative monitoring, SSEP somatosensory evoked potential, MEP motor evoked potential