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Potpourri
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For Fortify Ti, these are the 2 available core sizes.
What are 12mm and 20mm?
100
Fortify-I small screws are the same screws used in this system- one of the most successful products in Globus' history.
What is Coalition?
100
A key advantage of Capitol is this amount of internal slope- which allows angled cap placement to conform with patient anatomy.
What is 20 degrees?
100
Truss bone screws are 5.5 & 6.5mm in diameter and can be used with this- it's predecessor, Globus' first trauma plating system.
What is Gateway?
100
This Texas town is named after the namesake nephew of Placido Tejano, who served under Stephen F. Austin at the battle of Bexar.
What is Benavides, TX?
200
For Fortify-R, these are the 2 available core sizes.
What are 14mm and 20mm?
200
In addition to bone screws, the Gateway system utilizes these tried and tested screws for fixation.
What are Revere screws?
200
One advantage of Fortify is that when the cage is fully expanded, the surgeon can visualize this.
What is an etched triangle or marker on the implant?
200
The Truss Plating System is indicated for use from _____ to _____? (levels)
What is T1-L5?
200
In 1963, this infamous criminal purchased a Carcano rifle by mail-order under the alias "A.J. Hidell".
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
300
When assembling a Fortify implant, this endplate should always be aligned and attached first.
What is the lower endplate?
300
DAILY DOUBLE
Static Fortify-I cages come in this height range (___ to ____ mm) and in these increments.
300
In addition to continuous expansion, controlled distraction, modular endplates and a larger graft area, this is one of Fortify's biggest advantages over the competition.
What is an automatic/integrated locking mechanism?
300
With one of the lowest amongst its competitors, this is the profile height of a Truss plate.
What is 4mm?
300
This U.S.-based global cable and satellite television channel, owned as a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Corporation, launched on Sept. 7, 1979.
What is ESPN?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!
This is the maximum height that the smallest, short adjustable trial will expand to.
400
This is one of main advantages that Revere Anterior Integrated Staples offers versus a dual rod anterior system.
What is less volume with rigid fixation?
400
One advantage of Truss is simplified screw insertion, allowing the surgeon to do this- and then insert his screw.
What is awl?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
Truss' integrated Slider mechanism allows for up to this many mm of compression, depending on plate size.
400
A named inventor on approximately 45 patents and 74 pending patent applications, this entrepreneur received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Madras, and an M.S. in Computer Integrated Mechanical Engineering Systems from Temple University.
Who is David Paul?
500
The angling (posterior) holder rotates this many degrees in each direction in order to assist in proper implant placement.
What is 70 degrees?
500
The Ellipse OCT plate offers two fixation points laterally, through the rod acceptors, as well as this many POF in the midline- to maximize stability and accomodate for patient anatomy.
What is 5?
500
One advantage of rod-based system such as RASS is this, which can help accomodate differing patient anatomy.
What is the ability to place your screws where you want/need them?
500
At it's widest point, the Truss plate is 21mm wide, at it's shortest width (over the corpectomy site), this is the width of a non-compression plate.
What is 12mm?
500
Currently serving on Globus' Board of Directors, he also managed regional and international distribution for Domino’s Pizza in the late 1980s.
Who is Dave Demski?
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