The use of different adjuncts introduced over the years clearly influenced our results in a positive way.

tcMEP monitoring seems to be a useful adjunct of the protective techniques and may cause substantial adjustments in strategy, reducing the incidence of postoperative paraplegia.

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This study shows that six-pulse (rather than two-pulse) transcranial electrical stimulation during a stable anesthetic state and a stable neuromuscular blockade aimed at 45%-55% (rather than 5%-15%) of baseline provides reliable and recordable muscle responses sufficiently robust for spinal cord monitoring in aortic surgery.

The preliminary results suggest that S-100 protein in CSF may be a marker of clinical value in evaluating the effects of measures to detect and reduce spinal cord ischemia.