457 posters, 2 videos, 2 audios, 8 topics, 45 sessions, 401 authors, 265 institutions
ePostersLive by SciGen Technologies S.A. All rights reserved.
49th Annual Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Meeting
March 21-23, 2024 | The Hilton Bayfront San Diego | San Diego, California
5471
BEYOND THE BATTLEFIELD: EXPLORING MOTION TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES TO ELEVATE REGIONAL ANESTHESIA PROFICIENCY IN MILITARY TRAINING
Poster Presenter
Authors
Affiliations
Part of Topic
Scientific Abstracts > Regional Anesthesia
Beyond the Battlefield:
Exploring Motion Tracking Technologies to Elevate Regional Anesthesia Proficiency in Military Training
Lakshmi Sarvepalli, MD; John D Mitchell, MD; Vincent Baribeau, BS; Chris Clark, MD; Audrey R Tacderas, BS, and Carlos E. Guerra-Londono MD.
Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Management, & Perioperative Medicine. Henry Ford Health, Detroit, MI, USA.
Introduction:
•Motion analysis has been used to grade performance of surgical and ultrasound-guided procedures.1 Its use in UGRA (Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia) has been limited.
•
•This pilot study explores the feasibility of using motion tracking to discriminate UGRA proficiency between novice non-physician military medics and expert anesthesiologists.
Methods :
•IRB approval at Henry Ford Health (Detroit, MI). Participants gave informed consent for video and motion-tracking recordings during the course.
Participants: 11 novice military medics and 4 experts
•
•Weeklong curriculum of point-of-care ultrasound techniques along with teaching/practice of 4 hours provided to novice military medics before data collection.
•
•Novice and expert data acquired on the same femoral block task trainer (Simulab Corp, Seattle WA) under identical conditions using protocolized start and stop points and a standard sequence of events for a single femoral nerve injection.
•
•A Viper electromagnetic motion tracker (Polhemus Ltd, Colcheter, VT) with sensors was attached to both the ultrasound probe and the dorsum of the participant’s dominant hand using Tegaderm.
•
• Sensors recorded the motion of the dominant (needle) hand and ultrasound probe in X, Y, and Z planes, as well as roll, pitch, and yaw at 240 frames per second.
•
•Primary endpoints for single injections: path length (cm), rotational sum (degrees), translational motions (number of distinct movements), and total time (seconds).
•
•Statistical analyses were performed in Stata/SE18.3 (StataCorp, College Station, TX), Two-tailed t-tests with unequal variance was performed.