25. Major Perioperative Neurologic Deficits in Pediatric and Adult Spine Surgery Patients Incidence Etiology and Outcomes Over a 14-Year Period at One Institution

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: We hypothesized that rates of neurologic deficit are higher in kyphosis and revision surgery and that neurologic outcome is related to level of deficit. Also, that spinal cord monitoring (SCM) would not detect all deficits and that many deficits would not recover. We expected recovery to be similar in spinal cord (SC) and cauda equina (CE) deficits.