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Know every instrument. Cold.

Every tray on the site turns into a deck. Grade yourself card by card and each instrument comes back right before you would have forgotten it, then prove it on a timed exam.

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This is one card.

Front and back, as you would actually study it. There are 3,358 of them.

What is it?
Cooled Radiofrequency Introducer
Also known asCOOLIEF Fluid Delivery Introducer · Fluid Delivery Introducer · FDI · Cooled RF Introducer
Primary usesPlaced first, with the stylet in, under fluoroscopy until the tip reaches the target, usually against bone. The stylet is then removed and the cooled probe is passed down the introducer and seated firmly in the hub; its tip then reaches past the introducer by the length of its a…
InsightsA 17 gauge stainless steel cannula, insulated along its whole length, with a clear Luer-lock hub. A solid steel stylet with a sharp trocar tip locks into the hub and sticks out past the end of the cannula. A short extension tube with a Luer port comes off the side of the hub, an…
Inspection & testingCheck that the sterile package is intact and look the introducer over for damage before use; do not use a damaged one.
CautionAlways put the stylet back in before repositioning the introducer; the probe is not made to push through dense tissue.
Laid out forSacroiliac Joint Rhizotomy (Cooled Radiofrequency Ablation) · Thoracic Facet Rhizotomy (Cooled Radiofrequency Ablation) · Lumbar Facet Rhizotomy (Cooled Radiofrequency Ablation)
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3,352 more, across 385 surgical setups. See what is included

The loop

Reading a card is not knowing it.

1
Learn itFlashcards on any tray. Miss one and it is back in minutes; own it and it is back in weeks.
2
Check itA practice test built from the live catalogue: identify it from a photo, name what it is for, spot what does not belong.
3
Prove itEvery instrument on the tray, timed and scored, so you find out whether you really know it before the day it counts.

Free either way: the General setups in full, every instrument's photos and uses, and 5 questions a day. Start there

Ten minutes a day until it is boring.

Every day it tells you what is slipping and how much to do about it, and counts down to the date you set. The closer the exam, the more it gives you.