The Blue Phantom™ Spinal Epidural, Lumbar Puncture, and Cervical Epidural Ultrasound Training Model offers clinicians the flexibility to practice and teach a wide variety of procedures including lumbar puncture, lumbar epidural, thoracic epidural, and cervical epidural diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. This model contains the lumbar puncture, lumbar epidural, and cervical epidural modules.
The Blue Phantom Spinal Epidural, Lumbar Puncture, and Cervical Epidural Ultrasound Training Model is excellent in its realism, quality, and durability offering you the ability to use ultrasound or utilize blind insertion techniques while performing puncture or epidural procedures to access the epidural or subarachnoid space. Practice or teach a wide variety of procedures including lumbar puncture, lumbar epidural, and cervical epidural procedures
This trainer can be positioned in the upright or lateral decubitus position allowing users to accurately position the model for appropriate training scenarios. For lumbar puncture and lumbar epidural procedures, the use of external landmarks as the iliac crests can be palpated in the model to initially orient the user to the proper access points. Further palpation of the spinous processes provides additional landmarks.
The trainer's tissue module is superb in its realism and contains the entire lumbar spine, skin tissue, ligamentum flavum, epidural space, dura, subarachnoid membrane, and subarachnoid cistern containing cerebral spinal fluid. The realism optimizes your training while our self-healing tissue saves you money by reducing the need for purchasing replacement parts.
The cervical/upper thoracic spine insert allows users to practice cervical epidural needle and catheter placements and shares the same superior performance and realism as the lumbar spine tissue insert. Clinicians are able to perform epidural procedures and cerebral spinal fluid is present in the model as a way of providing the user immediate feedback as to procedural complications.
Blue Phantom tissue is extremely durable and is self-healing which saves you money by reducing the need to repeatedly purchase replacement parts. All injected fluids, local anesthetics as well as epidural fluid infusions, are automatically expelled and cerebral spinal fluid that is removed is easily refilled using quick refill ports.
This model is superb for utilizing blind insertion techniques for lumbar puncture and spinal epidural procedures or performing ultrasound-guided lumbar puncture, ultrasound-guided lumbar epidural procedures, and ultrasound-guided cervical epidural procedures. Ultrasound can be used for identification of the optimal insertion points, angle of needle insertion, and determination of the depth to the ligamentum flavum, epidural space, and spinal cistern, which is especially important when performing procedures using the obese spinal tissue insert.
Blue Phantom synthetic tissue matches the acoustic characteristics of real human tissue so when you use your ultrasound system on our training models, you experience the same quality you expect from imaging patients in a clinical environment. This model will perform well using any ultrasound imaging system configured with the appropriate ultrasound transducer.
Features:
- Excellent training platform for lumbar puncture, lumbar epidural, thoracic epidural, and cervical epidural procedures*
- Excellent for blind insertion techniques or using ultrasound for guided spinal epidural or lumbar puncture procedures
- Superb for needle access as well as the placement of catheters
- Can be positioned in the upright or lateral decubitus position allowing users to accurately position the model for appropriate training scenarios
- External landmarks as the iliac crests can be palpated in the model to initially orient the user to the proper access points
- Palpation of the spinous processes provides additional landmarks
- The accessory obese spinal insert** provides more adipose tissue disallowing the palpation of the spinal processes
- Each spine tissue module is superb in its realism and contains the appropriate spinal segment, skin tissue, ligamentum flavum, epidural space, dura, subarachnoid membrane, and subarachnoid space containing cerebral spinal fluid
- Utilize for full procedural training including injecting local anesthetics, introduce the needle to the epidural space and/or subarachnoid space, thread catheters, infuse simulated anesthetics, and obtain manometer measurements
- Realistic tissue response including the pop encountered when traversing the ligamentum flavum, loss of resistance when entering the epidural space, and cerebral spinal fluid flow when the spinal cistern is accurately accessed
- The cerebral spinal fluid pressures can be easily increased in order to simulate pathological scenarios during lumbar puncture training
- The optional thoracic or cervical/upper thoracic spine insert allows users to practice thoracic or cervical epidural needle and catheter placements*
- Available in a variety of configurations to meet your training needs
- Extremely durable and is self-healing which saves you money by reducing the need to repeatedly purchase replacement parts
- All injected fluids are automatically expelled and cerebral spinal fluid that is removed is easily refilled using quick refill ports
- Ultrasound can be used for identification of the optimal insertion points, angle of needle insertion, and determination of the depth to the ligamentum flavum, epidural space, and spinal cistern
- Superb ultrasound imaging characteristics
- Use any ultrasound system and never have to adjust the system settings unrealistically or have problems imaging the model’s anatomy
- Ultra-durable self-healing tissue is extremely realistic in ultrasound imaging characteristics and feels like real human tissue
- Self-healing tissue will withstand tremendous use and will save you money by dramatically reducing the necessity for purchasing replacement parts
- Purchase includes 1 bottle of simulated refill solution; one clear 235mls bottle
- Add optional Soft Storage Case for light transport and storage
- Modular design
- High quality
- Patented technology
