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Spacer Cone - Video Lesson

We wanna talk a little bit about the spacer cone. And hopefully you know that that little cone on there that can obviously come off and go back on again has to be on when it's out in the hallway. It's a state law, it's a federal law that everybody has to have it on there, and people get dinged all the time because they put it back out in the hall and they don't have it on there. Once it's in the room though, there are ways, and there are things that you can do to not have to keep it on during the case. And so here in California, we need to actually fill out paperwork and mention every case that we would need to do use a CRM four and not have the the cone on there, and then we're allowed to take it off. So the reason that they came up with this thing, and if you know that the distance here from the top of it to the exact middle of the tube where the x-ray is being created