Which statement is NOT correct regarding the placement of the bone flap?

Which of the following statements regarding a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunts is incorrect?

During a microdiscectomy, Gelfoam pledgets are soaked in:

The Love and Scoville retractors are both ____.

Name the anatomical structure labeled #101 on the diagram below.     

What is the recommended temperature for irrigation fluid used on the delicate, brain tissue? What is the highest setting you should use on the irrigation fluid warmer to maintain the desired solution temperature? (there are two separate answers to this question. The formatting of the answers is not a range, but two answers listed on the same line)

A 10-year-old female patient arrives in the emergency department after falling from a playground slide and injuring her head. She lost consciousness at the scene but is awake on arrival to the ED. She complains of nausea and left-sided headache but responds to verbal commands appropriately.  During the examination by the neurosurgeon, she loses consciousness again, becomes hypertensive and bradycardic. Her left pupil is now fixed and dilated. The surgeon calls the OR to set up an emergency craniotomy procedure. Why did the surgeon make the right choice and choose to schedule the case as an emergency?

In neurosurgery- the standard of practice is for the surgical technologist to hand the microinstruments to the surgeons  ___,  keep the tips of instruments and bipolar tips clean and free of debris, and keep the _____ on the field at all times. 

The neurosurgeon performing a craniotomy in room 9  does not believe in hemostats because they feel the serrations affect wound healing. He asks for the “other things to stop bleeding that we throw away”. The surgical technologists should hand the surgeon a/an___. 

Which of the following meningeal layers has the closest and most intimate contact with the brain?