Instrumentation

Question 1

What part of the PART system does instrumentation satisfy for insurance coding?

Answer 1

T - Tissue Tone

Question 2

What can cause IR scatter during in instrumentation?

Answer 2

Perspiration

Question 3

Technology reliability is initially low, but improved with examiner reliability. T/F

Answer 3

F

Examiner reliability initially low - improved with tech and expertise

Question 4

What does instrumentation assess?

Answer 4

Vasomotor function as a reflection of aberrant neuromodulation

Dermal microvasculature info

ANS (SNS) info

Question 5

Infrared paraspinal thermal imaging system

Answer 5

TyTron C-3000 - Gathering info in first 5mm of epidermis

Question 6

Warmth receptor are unmyelinated. T/F

Answer 6

True

Cold receptors are myelinated - saltatory

Question 7

Sensory info (pain and temp) enters cord as afferent input and synapses in the dorsal horn at the ___________________.

The next synapse is from gray to white matter to become ____________________ tract

Answer 7

Tract of Lissauer

Lateral Spinothalamic

Question 8

Sorts between pain and temperature

Answer 8

Tract or Lissauer

Question 9

Lateral Spinothalamic Tract ascends to brain and terminates at the _______________________________, which synapses to:

- \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
- \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Answer 9

Ventral Posterolateral nucleus of the Thalamus

- BDMN 3,1,2 (primary sensory cortex)
- Insular cortex (Insula / "Island of Reil").

Question 10

The anterior portion of the Isle of Reil regulates ________________

Answer 10

Viscero-Autonomic function

Question 11

SNS cord lvls

Answer 11

T1-L3

Question 12

TyTron C-3000 measures ____________

Answer 12

Relative skin temperature