Visualization Improves Supraclavicular Access to the Subclavian Vein in a Mixed Reality Simulator.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We investigated whether visual augmentation (3D, real-time, color visualization) of a procedural simulator improved performance during training in the supraclavicular approach to the subclavian vein, not as widely known or used as its infraclavicular counterpart.

Methods

To train anesthesiology residents to access a central vein, a mixed reality simulator with emulated ultrasound imaging was created using an anatomically authentic, 3D-printed, physical mannequin based on a computed tomographic scan of an actual human. The simulator has a corresponding 3D virtual model of the neck and upper chest anatomy. Hand-held instruments such as a needle, an ultrasound probe, and a virtual camera controller are directly manipulated by the trainee and tracked and recorded with

SUBMITTER: Sappenfield JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6774241 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature