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The Supraclavicular Fossa Ultrasound View for Central Venous Catheter Placement and Catheter Change Over Guidewire
Published on: December 23, 2014
Ultrasound-guided central venous catheterization using an optical see-through head-mounted display: A pilot study
Naoki Kaneko1,2, Makoto Sato3, Taro Takeshima4
1Department of Neurosurgery, Sano Kosei General Hospital, Tochigi, Japan. nkaneko@jichi.ac.jp.
Purpose:
We examined the feasibility of using a head-mounted display (HMD) to improve the ergonomics of sonographic-guided interventional procedures.
Methods:
Five physicians with experience of more than 20 central venous catheterizations participated in this study. Each participant performed five pairs of simulated jugular vein catheterization under sonographic guidance with and without the HMD. The procedure time was determined as well as the number of head movements, needle redirections, posterior wall punctures, and guidewire malpositionings.
Results:
All participants could perform simulated sonographic-guided catheterization using this HMD without turning their heads. There were no differences in the procedural time, the number of needle redirections, posterior wall punctures, and guidewire malpositionings.
Conclusions:
The binocular optical see-through HMD could be adopted for sonographic-guided interventional procedures © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound 44:487-491, 2016.
