ABRET CNIM COMPREHENSIVE
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 FULL QUESTIONS
CORRECT SOLUTIONS
◉ Where are compound muscle action potentials (CMAP) recorded?
Select one:
a. brain
b. muscle
c. spine
d. nerve.
Answer: b. muscle
◉ Why is H-Reflex useful in intraoperative neuromonitoring? (select
all that apply).
Answer: a. It monitors complex spinal cord function involving
integreated ascending and descending influence on spinal
interneurons
b. It is acquired safely and without the surgical team's involvement,
there are no adverse effects or the procedure and H-Reflex is present
in the general population
c. It provides real time assessment of nerve root and spinal motor
neuron compromise and is more sensitive to spinal cord
, compromise than techniques involving the spinal cord long tract
such as SSEP
d. It is suppressed or absent immediately following spinal cord
injury and observable under most general anesthetics
◉ Cervical spinal nerve pairs, the first of which enters above C1.
Answer: 8
◉ Number of Lumbar spinal nerve pairs/also the same as the
number of sacral spinal nerve pairs.
Answer: 5
◉ Total number of spinal nerve pairs.
Answer: 31
◉ Number of Thoracic spinal nerve pairs.
Answer: 12
◉ How many nerve pairs are in the coccygeal segment?.
Answer: 1
◉ A decrease in body temperature has what effect(s) on evoked
potentials?
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 FULL QUESTIONS
CORRECT SOLUTIONS
◉ Where are compound muscle action potentials (CMAP) recorded?
Select one:
a. brain
b. muscle
c. spine
d. nerve.
Answer: b. muscle
◉ Why is H-Reflex useful in intraoperative neuromonitoring? (select
all that apply).
Answer: a. It monitors complex spinal cord function involving
integreated ascending and descending influence on spinal
interneurons
b. It is acquired safely and without the surgical team's involvement,
there are no adverse effects or the procedure and H-Reflex is present
in the general population
c. It provides real time assessment of nerve root and spinal motor
neuron compromise and is more sensitive to spinal cord
, compromise than techniques involving the spinal cord long tract
such as SSEP
d. It is suppressed or absent immediately following spinal cord
injury and observable under most general anesthetics
◉ Cervical spinal nerve pairs, the first of which enters above C1.
Answer: 8
◉ Number of Lumbar spinal nerve pairs/also the same as the
number of sacral spinal nerve pairs.
Answer: 5
◉ Total number of spinal nerve pairs.
Answer: 31
◉ Number of Thoracic spinal nerve pairs.
Answer: 12
◉ How many nerve pairs are in the coccygeal segment?.
Answer: 1
◉ A decrease in body temperature has what effect(s) on evoked
potentials?
