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  • Title: [Evoked potentials for quality assurance in carotid surgery--a cost effectiveness analysis].
    Author: Quendt J, Uhl BJ, Wedekind LV, Fürnrohr H.
    Journal: Zentralbl Chir; 1996; 121(12):1041-4. PubMed ID: 9092225.
    Abstract:
    In order to evaluate the relation between costs and benefit of the use of a temporary shunt during surgery of the carotid artery, we analysed 356 patients undergoing 401 operations of the carotid artery in a period from January 1991 to August 1995 in a retrospective study. The morbidity and mortality during hospital stay were 1.75% respectively 0.75% referring to neurological outcome and death. The potential to economize surgery of the carotid artery by recording the somatosensory evoked potentials in order to select the patients requiring a temporary shunt would be 4.1% of the payment which will be payed from 1996 by the social insurance for carotid endarterectomy. These savings can be realized without loss of quality or higher risk for the patient.
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