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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurosurgery. 2013 Jan;72(0 1):115–123. doi: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182753093

Table.

Top Gun residents Simulation results on Spine Module

ErrorToHole
(mm)		 ErrorToTarget
(mm)		 Avg Accuracy
Score (mm)		 Avg Fluoro
Shots (sec)		 Average
Cumulative
Score
(accuracy+
fluoro)
Practice 23.6 14.7 19.2 36.1 55.2
Test 27.3 14.7 21 23.3 44.3

Data from the AANS top Gun competition, where participants used the pedicular spinal simulators for practice, then for testing, participants obtained better cumulative scores on their tests following practice, primarily attributable to significantly less fluoroscopy requests. The differences in accuracy scores were relatively insignificant.