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Ultrasound probe grip: the afternoon tea technique

Author(s) -

Luke McMenamin,

Stephen Wolstenhulme,

M. Y. Hunt,

Stuart Nuttall,

Asoka Weerasinghe

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

journal of the intensive care society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.551

H-Index - 14

eISSN - 2057-360X

pISSN - 1751-1437

DOI - 10.1177/1751143716683715

Subject(s) - venous access , medicine , ultrasound , variety (cybernetics) , clinical practice , medical emergency , computer science , radiology , physical therapy , artificial intelligence , catheter

Background Globally, ultrasound is being used to assist in central venous and difficult peripheral intravenous access in a variety of emergency and non-emergency clinical settings.Context After reading Flood’s paper on safe central venous access and noting the difficulties clinicians find in probe stabilisation whilst performing dynamic intravenous access, we decided to share our teaching technique.Innovation The purpose of this correspondence is to highlight the ‘afternoon tea technique’ as a potential teaching method for probe stabilisation.Implications It is hoped that this technique will improve the image quality in dynamic procedures and increase the success rate of ultrasound-guided intravenous access in clinical practice.

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