Know your anatomy | What's in an Image? | Monitor what? | All in a day's work | |
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What is the Psoas Muscle?
This muscle contributes to hip flexion.
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What is the index level?
You center this first when correcting an image.
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What is Motor Nerve?
This nerve carries impulses from the brain or spinal cord to a muscle.
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What is 18 and 22mm?
These are the widths of the standard F3D lateral and PEEK implants.
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What is 35, 45, 55?
The lateral trials have these depth mark lengths.
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What is the Vena Cava?
This is the largest venous structure in the body.
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What is A/P?
This is the first image you work to get correct.
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What is Sensory Nerve
This nerve carries sensory information toward the central nervous system.
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What is 45-60mm?
These are the lengths of the standard F3D lateral and PEEK lateral implants.
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What is the #2 dilator?
You measure blade length for the retractor with this dilator.
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What is the lumbar plexus?
This structure lies in the posterior 1/3 of the psoas muscle and contains the femoral nerve.
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What is tilt (airplane) the table?
You do this to correct vertebral body rotation.
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What is SSEP?
Allows for monitoring sensory pathways in the posterior column of the spinal cord.
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What is 10, 12, 14, 16, 18mm
Oro 4-hole lateral plate sizes.
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What is 20 degrees?
You get this amount of toeing from each retractor blade.
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What is the femoral nerve?
This nerve exits at L2, L3, L4.
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What is Wig-Wag the c-arm?
You do this to correct/flatten the endplates in the A/P view.
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What is MEP?
Allows for monitoring motor pathways in the anterior column of the spinal cord.
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What is 6, 8, 10, 12, 14mm
Oro 2-hole lateral plate sizes.
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What is 15 and 21mm?
A key feature of the CoreLink Lateral Retractor is this inner and outer diameter.
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What is the Transverse Abdominis?
Muscles superficial to the transversalis fascia.
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What is Trendelenberg?
To flatten endplates and super-impose pedicles in the lateral view, you do this...
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What is EMG?
This modality assesses nerve root function.
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What is the recommended interbody cage height?
The laser-marked number on the Oro Lateral Plate indicates this.
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What is "read off the dilator at the position of the skin and add 10mm"
You do this to identify the correct length of the retractor blade.
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