Improving the success rate for the first attempt should reduce complications, improve patient's comfort, and shorten the puncture duration during performing ultrasound guided procedures. Needle-tracking devices are used for procedural performance to optimize needle US beam alignment by providing real-time display of the current and predicted needle tip position. The primary goal of this learning session is to introduce the CRNA to optical imagining needle guidance technology that uses both artificial intelligence and augmented reality to provide enhanced needle tracking. Content will focus on the state of the science supporting the use of optical imaging needle guidance along with results highlighting its use in a training protocol at a Nurse Anesthesia Program.
Learning Objectives:
Evaluate the current evidence supporting the use of optical imaging needle guidance during ultrasound-guided procedural performance.
Learn how the optical imaging needle guidance technology can innovate your clinical practice to improve needle visualization during ultrasound-guided procedural performance.
Identify how optical needle guidance can help improve the fundamental skills of ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia procedural performance.
