SIDE USE OF MEDTRONIC(R)-3625 SCREENER PE RCUTANEOUS STIMULATOR FOR INTRAOPERATIVE STIMULATION OF NERVES AND ROOTLETS IN SURGICAL-TREATMENTFOR SPASTICITY AND TRAUMATIC LESIONS OF NERVES AND BRACHIAL PLEXUS - TECHNICAL NOTE

We have had the opportunity to use a standard percutaneous stimulator as an intraoperative stimulator, with the use of sterile leads, in ord er to palliate the sudden failure of our usual surgical stimulator. Th e simplicity and the possibility of modulation of the device, brought us to use it several times in different purposes of surgical work for spasticity, neurotization of the brachial plexus and treatment of fres h wounds of the nerves, Important features of this new way of using th is device are simplicity of programation (width and frequency rates), good stability of choosen parameters, low diffusion allowing selective stimulation, and above all low cost versus standard devices used for this purpose.