Affiliation:
1. Rome, GA, 2 Nexus Pain Care, Provo, UT
Abstract
Background: Students of interventional spine procedures typically learn needle injection technique using cadaver specimens or live patients in an operating room. This can
be expensive, inefficient, uncomfortable to patients, and requires a significant time commitment from teaching staff.
Purpose: To present a simple and inexpensive simulator using a cut of beef as an injection model that can be used to teach certain components of interventional spine injection needle technique in a more efficient and cost effective fashion.
Basic Procedures: A needle injection practice model using beef muscle attached to
a plastic base was constructed. Students of interventional spine pain were instructed in
C-arm x-ray operation and basic needle handling technique, then performed a series of
mock injection procedures using this simulator. Procedure time, fluoroscopy time, and
accuracy were measured.
Main findings: Speed, accuracy of needle placement, and fluoroscopy time of the
subjects improved with the number of practice sessions completed. The subjects felt better prepared to perform live patient procedures as a result of this training.
Conclusions: Use of an inexpensive beef injection model is a valid, reliable, and feasible adjunct to teaching C-arm x-ray operation and spine injection needle technique to
beginning students of intervention spine pain management.
Keywords: models, educational ; models, anatomic; models, structural
Publisher
American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
Subject
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Cited by
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