TY - JOUR
T1 - Suspected Somatosensory Evoked Potentials Pacing Atria During Cerebral Bypass Surgery
T2 - A Case Report
AU - Abdulahad, Denise S.
AU - Pachuski, Justin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2025 Denise S. Abdulahad and Justin Pachuski. Case Reports in Anesthesiology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Somatosensory evoked potentials are commonly utilized during surgery to assess the function of the central nervous system. We present a case of a 48-year-old female patient undergoing cerebral bypass surgery who was noted to have reproducible, stimulation frequency-dependent heart rate changes that coincided with somatosensory evoked potentials stimulation. We hypothesize that the somatosensory evoked potential stimulation current was depolarizing a foci of atrial myocytes, resulting in the initiation of the cardiac cycle.
AB - Somatosensory evoked potentials are commonly utilized during surgery to assess the function of the central nervous system. We present a case of a 48-year-old female patient undergoing cerebral bypass surgery who was noted to have reproducible, stimulation frequency-dependent heart rate changes that coincided with somatosensory evoked potentials stimulation. We hypothesize that the somatosensory evoked potential stimulation current was depolarizing a foci of atrial myocytes, resulting in the initiation of the cardiac cycle.
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U2 - 10.1155/cria/2637445
DO - 10.1155/cria/2637445
M3 - Article
C2 - 40124877
AN - SCOPUS:105000695183
SN - 2090-6382
VL - 2025
JO - Case Reports in Anesthesiology
JF - Case Reports in Anesthesiology
IS - 1
M1 - 2637445
ER -