Use of local infiltration anesthesia, topical anesthesia and minor nerve blocks. (All physicians may apply. Privileges will be granted with evidence of clinical experience.)
Lumbar puncture
Puncture for injection, drainage or aspiration through fontanels, burr holes, cisternal lateral cervical puncture of shunt tubing or reservoirs.
Neurostimulators, spinal and intracranial
CSF shunting procedures
Spine and spinal cord procedures: cervial, thoracic, lumbar, laminectomies, laminotomies and diskectomies
Chemonucleolysis
Anterior cervial fusions
Posterior lumbar interbody fusion / Anterior lumbar interbody fusion
Peripheral nerve surgery
Nerve injections (i.e., greater occipital nerve)
Excision of ribs or muscle for thoracic outlet syndrome
Use of tongs or application of halo
Rhizotomies
Lateral interbody fusions (XLIF)