The college wanted their candidates to "critically evaluate the role" of SSEPs in Question 2 from the first paper of 2005. Another question on SSEP results was Question 11 from the second paper of 2014 ("Describe how SSEPs can be used for prognostication in patients with hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury"); by a totally arbitrary decision that question was left in the Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation revision section.
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Guérit, J-M., et al. "Consensus on the use of neurophysiological tests in the intensive care unit (ICU): electroencephalogram (EEG), evoked potentials (EP), and electroneuromyography (ENMG)." Neurophysiologie Clinique/Clinical Neurophysiology 39.2 (2009): 71-83.
Tjepkema-Cloostermans, Marleen Catharina, J. Horn, and M. J. A. M. Putten. "The SSEP on the ICU: Current applications and pitfalls." Netherlands journal of critical care 17.1 (2013): 5-9.