[Principles of the automatic analysis of amplitude, transmission time, conduction velocity and refractory period of the compound nerve action potential of peripheral nerves. Results in the human sural nerve (author's transl)].

A method for the automatical determination of the amplitude, the transmission time, the conduction velocity and the refractory period of sural nerve was evaluated by help of HISTOMAT-S/MULTI 20 computer. The results of the automatical analysis were compared with those of the conventional method in 50 healthy control persons. There was no significant difference between the dates. Accuracy and correctness were exactly in the same range, but the investigation time of the analysis by help of a computer is much shorter.