Welcome to my Pitt Neurosurgery Wiki

This is a tool to organize knowledge related to the practice and provision of neurosurgical care. Anyone is welcome to contribute. 

TEMPLATES

• Cerner Templates
• Night Float Template
• Patient Lists
• Saturday Call Rounding Schedule Template

PROCEDURES

Spine

• ACDF
• ALIF
• Okonkwo OR 12
• XLIF

General Cranial

• Chiari
• MVD
• cSDH
• RNS
• Temporal lobectomy
• Trauma pericranial flap

Skull Base

• EEA
• Far lateral
  • Lang
• Eyebrow craniotomy
• Lateral orbitotomy
• Odontoidectomy
• RMC
• Tegmen
• Notes and trivia
• Video editing

Shunts, Pumps, and Stims

• Stage 1 Pain Pump
• Stage 1 Spinal Cord Stimulator
• Stage 2 DBS
• Stage 2 Cervical SCS
• Cervical Rhizotomy
• Lumbar Rhizotomy
• Glycerol Rhizotomy

Intracranial Vascular

• Aneurysm
• STA-MCA Bypass

Extracranial Vascular

• Vertebral artery decompression
• Carotid Endarterectomy
  • Friedlander
  • Lang
  • Zenonos

Functional

• Corpus callosotomy

Peripheral Nerve

• Superficial Peroneal Nerve Biopsy

Other

• Wound washout

Bedside

• EVD
• Bolts

Protocols

• Chronic SDH Medical Management Protocol

HIGH YIELD INFO

• Contacts
• Door Codes
• Glove Sizes
• High Yield Meds
• High Yield Nursing Pages
• Orders
• Pre-rounding Questions to ask
• Supplies
• Tech Support
• Trivia