Four days about the spine, and three of them are really about the same thing: decisions made before anything happens, because afterwards the patient is face-down on a frame and your options have gone.
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What this is
no new material
**No new material. Harder questions.**
This week was the prone patient. Day 05 said the position removes options rather than adding risk. Day 06 said padding is the only control you have over two pressures nothing else in the case will fix. Day 07 said the two monitoring modalities watch different tracts in different arterial territories. Day 08 gave you the two drugs with real trial evidence, and the part of each result that gets dropped.
The thread running through all four is that the useful work happens before the turn. Once the patient is prone, a dislodged tube, a lost line, an unrecorded baseline and an unanticipated transfusion are all the same problem — a problem you cannot get at.
Answer first, then read. Checking the day before answering turns retrieval
practice into rereading, and the two feel identical while you are doing them.
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The questions
9 of 10 application or analysis
Item 1Analysis Neuro 1 · Week 2
A colleague describes the prone position as "higher risk". Day 05 frames it differently. What is the more useful formulation, and what follows?
Item 2Analysis Neuro 1 · Week 2
Why does an abdomen resting on the frame produce surgical bleeding rather than merely discomfort?
Item 3Application Neuro 1 · Week 2
Which single positioning variable most directly influences the risk of perioperative ischaemic optic neuropathy, on the mechanism this curriculum teaches?
Item 4Analysis Neuro 1 · Week 2
SSEPs and MEPs are sometimes described as redundant confirmation of one another. Why is that wrong?
Item 5Application Neuro 1 · Week 2
Motor evoked potential amplitude falls by 60% during instrumentation. What does this curriculum support saying?
Item 6Analysis Neuro 1 · Week 2
Which statement about the sensory alarm criterion is correct, and what is its scope?
Item 7Analysis Neuro 1 · Week 2
What did the large noncardiac surgery trial of tranexamic acid actually establish, and what did it not?
Item 8Application Neuro 1 · Week 2
Which intraoperative analgesic decision has the cleanest supporting evidence in posterior spinal fusion, and what is the practical consequence?
Item 9Application Neuro 1 · Week 2
Which pre-turn item is triggered specifically by "expected blood loss" as a known case feature?
Item 10Recall Neuro 1 · Week 2
Which vessel supplies the tract watched by motor evoked potentials, and how much of the cord does it cover?