Specific lumbar puncture training during clinical clerkship durably increases atraumatic needle use.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Atraumatic needles are proposed to lower complication rates after lumbar puncture (LP). Only a minority of physicians use such needles. Here we aimed to assess the impact of specific training in LP during clinical clerkship on the proportion of medical students using atraumatic needles.

Methods

We performed a case-control study comparing medical students undergoing clinical clerkship and students undergoing specific LP training. The 176 students of a class underwent training in LP just before beginning their clinical rotations. This training consisted of 45 minutes of theoretical training and a 90-minute practical session with a dummy. Twenty students were selected from the class at random, and their competence was assessed with a multiple choice questionnaire (MC

SUBMITTER: Moisset X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6557568 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature