Safe, Real-Time Ultrasound-Guided Needling Practice
NeedleTrainer revolutionizes ultrasound-guided needling education with a safe, realistic, and effective training platform. Using a retractable needle and virtual image overlays, it enables trainees to practice non-invasive needling on a live participant while performing real-time ultrasound scanning. This innovative approach helps develop hand-eye coordination, positioning, and accuracy in ultrasound-guided procedures with minimal risk.
Expanding its versatility, NeedleTrainer now supports multiple clinical applications with alternative needle sizes and a dedicated Vascular Access Mode. NeedleTrainer Plus enhances learning for regional anesthesia, while the portable version offers flexible training across multiple sites. This all-in-one solution ensures comprehensive, high-fidelity ultrasound-guided needling education.
NeedleTrainer
Features and Benefits
- NeedleTrainer uses a retractable needle and virtual image overlays to simulate needling non-invasively on a live participant in a safe but realistic clinical environment.
- Simulate needling non-invasively on a live participant. Augmented reality overlays the simulated needle onto the live ultrasound feed, allowing a highly realistic scanning experience.
- Needle visualization measurements aid proficiency and competence assessment in needle probe coordination skills.
- Customize the echogenicity and gauge of the virtual needle, according to the procedure and specialty requirements.
- Vascular Access Mode, along with the 2 additional needle lengths, expands training to more clinical specialties, including line placement, nephrology, and OB/GYN.
- NeedleTrainer Plus introduces color overlays to differentiate anatomical structures, improving image interpretation and enhancing learning for regional anesthesia.
Customer Stories
A central London teaching hospital, University College London Hospital (UCLH), has
University College London Hospital (UCLH)
“While training and early clinical practice remained safe, as the trainee was always
Interview with Sarah Harries, Head of School for Anaesthesia and HEIW Associate Dean
Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW)
“We want our students to step into the clinical setting with more confidence than
Interview with Dr Melissa Fitch, Program Director
The University of Evansville’s Nurse Anesthesia Program
HQ.MED.ED invested in BodyWorks Eve, HeartWorks and NeedleTrainer as part of the
Interview with Thomas Pahl, PA-C
HQ.MED.ED
Testimonials
"Using human models allows trainees to learn about how to position the patient, and practice on different sides of the body, as well as different bodies, which all appear different under ultrasound."…
Dr Sarah Harries
Health Education and Improvement Wales
"Utilising simulation, and especially hi-fidelity simulation like this, enables us to make a training opportunity of things that potentially weren’t an actual block. And the more that we can do of this,…
Dr Simeon West
University College London Hospital (UCLH)
Dr Melissa Eisenhauer
The University of Evansville Nurse Anesthesia Program
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