Lumbar Puncture And Spinal Epidural With Thoracic Epidural Ultrasound Training Model
- Blue Phantom Lumbar Puncture and Spinal Epidural with Thoracic Epidural Ultrasound Training Model offers clinicians the flexibility to practice and teach a wide variety of procedures including lumbar puncture, thoracic epidural diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
- The Lumbar Puncture trainer with Lumbar Epidural is available in a variety of configurations:
- The base model contains the Lumbar Puncture and Lumbar Epidural configuration
- Three versions are available:
- These optional thoracic or cervical/upper thoracic spine insert allows users to practice thoracic or cervical epidural needle and catheter placements
- An obese spinal insert is also available providing more adipose tissue disallowing the palpation of the spinal processes
- The Lumbar Puncture and Spinal Epidural with Thoracic Epidural access is excellent in its realism, quality and durability offering the ability to use ultrasound or utilize blind insertion techniques while performing lumbar puncture or epidural procedures to access the epidural or subarachnoid space.
- Ultrasound can be used for identification of the optimal insertion points, angle of needle insertion, and determination of the depth to the ligamentum flavum, epidural space, and spinal cistern - which is especially important when performing procedures using the obese spinal tissue insert
- Blue Phantom Lumbar Puncture and Spinal Epidural with Thoracic Epidural model is superb for needle access as well as the placement of catheters
- Users can inject local anaesthetics, introduce the needle to the epidural space and/or subarachnoid space (perform "spinal taps"), thread catheters, infuse simulated anaesthetics, and obtain manometer measurements - all while experiencing a realistic tissue response including the pop encountered when traversing the ligamentum flavum, loss of resistance when entering the epidural space, and cerebral spinal fluid flow when the spinal cistern is accurately accessed