Product And Procedure Review

Question 1

Medicine

Answer 1

Defined as the art and science of the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the maintenance of health

Question 2

Supine or dorsal recumbent

Answer 2

Lying on the back

Question 3

Prone

Answer 3

Lying on the abdomen (face down)

Question 4

Knee-chest

Answer 4

Kneeling, face down and knees bent

Question 5

Lithotomy

Answer 5

Lying on the back, thighs elevated and the legs flexed at right angles to body, perineum exposed

Question 6

Trendelenburg

Answer 6

Lying supine with head tilted down

Question 7

Lateral decubitus

Answer 7

Lying on the side

Question 8

Perform surgery on neurological complication to head, neck & spine

• trained during residency, 5- year program

Answer 8

Neurosurgeon

Question 9

1-2 yr fellowship solely on head, neck and spine (i.e. Facet blocks, aneurysm cooling, stenting, etc.)

Answer 9

INR (interventional neuro- radiologists)

Question 10

Pain management

Answer 10

Anesthesiologists who have an additional 1-year fellowship in acute and chronic pain management, interventional pain management, and palliative medicine

Question 11

IR (interventional radiologist)

Answer 11

Radiologists w/1-2 year fellowship on minimally-invasive peripheral body interventions, not spine (i.e., PICC lines, perm cath’s, etc.)

Question 12

Orthopedic Spine

Answer 12

Training is 5 year residency for general orthopedics with a spine fellowship for additional 2-years

Question 13

Surgery

Answer 13

Defined as a branch of medicine concerned with diseases and conditions requiring or amenable to operative or manual procedures

Question 14

Preoperative

Answer 14

It is the period of time prior to the operation. It may includes the onset of the pathology, the appearance of symptoms, the diagnosis, the moment the patient enters the hospital, and the moment the patient is wheeled into the operating room

Question 15

Intraoperative

Answer 15

It is the period of time in which the patient is in the operating room

Question 16

Postoperative

Answer 16

It is the period of time after the operation in which the patient recovers from the surgical procedure and his condition

Question 17

Diagnostic procedure

Answer 17

Procedure that is part of the diagnostic process

Question 18

Syndrome

Answer 18

Specific set of symptoms and signs that define a particular pathology

Question 19

Sign

Answer 19

Objective measurable parameter that physician can observe and record

Question 20

Symptom

Answer 20

Subjective complaints which a patient relates to the physician

Question 21

Pathology

Answer 21

Disease sickness or condition

Question 22

Diagnosis

Answer 22

Classification process by which a position clearly identifies a condition or disease

Question 23

Prognosis

Answer 23

Potential outcome of the patient after surgery or treatment