Dr. Wilson
- Landmark, mark with lines
- Skin with knife
- Cautery below, 2 12 inch guys (large SRs)
- No subcutaneous flaps
- Find SPs
- Mark each one
- Connect the dots and expose the tops
- Bottom to top always
- Muscles insert that way
- Bleeders are recognizable
- Cautery down to laminas and over to joints
- Scrape and retract with Cobb, cautery other hand
- Get to facet capsule, release the tendon inserting on it
- First raytech cobb swipe
- Top hand retract, bottom packs in a ray tech
- Walk the way up
- Crank retractor in, with cobb assistance
- Dissect out slightly more laterally to exposure part of TPs so we can landmark (start point, sup inf and med lat)
- Readjust cranks
Dr. Lewis
- Drape insanely wide
- Mark
- Line C7 – buttcrack
- Line 2 UIV to LIV
- Final line between the two, but must end at buttcrack (in case need to extend to pelvis)
- Exposure
- Skin, sub small flaps, Cerebellar
- Mark 4 SPs, connect dots
- Go deep to lamina halfway up TP on 3-4 top and 3-4 bottom
- Gets you the right depth
- Cerebellar deeper now, add Wheatlaner
- Now there is tension at the right depth
- Keep going
- Ride up the TPs then trace out the pats
- Leave the dorsal NV bundle intact
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