Robert J. Sclabassi, Jeffrey Balzer, Donald Crammond, and Miguel Habeych

Center for Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

33.1. Introduction
Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring provides a real-time control loop around a system composed of the surgeon, patient, and anesthesiologist. The goals of this control loop are both the reduction of morbidity and a dynamic assessment of the structure–function relationships of the patient’s nervous system.

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