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APEIT100 - Lumbar Epidural Injection Trainer

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• Designed to help trainee anaesthetists acquire the necessary tactile skills for epidural anaesthesia
• Loss of resistance to air or saline is the key stage in performing an epidural injection and is a difficult skill to learn, requiring repeated experience of the changes that occur as the epidural needle is advanced
• Offers both tactile and visual access to the lumbar spine, the epidural space and the dural sac
• The spinous processes and the interspinous spaces can be palpated beneath the skin
• Epidural injection is carried out using either air or saline to detect loss of resistance and if accidental dural puncture occurs, cerebrospinal fluid will appear
• The tissue layers of the trainer replicate the tactile feedback from the skin and subcutaneous tissues, the intersinous ligaments and the ligamentum flavium
• Easy to disassemble revealing the relevant anatomical details and where the needle tip has been directed
• The spinous processes of LI-5 are palpable and epidural injection can be performed at all four interspinous levels
• Includes:
  • Touhy needle
  • Loss of resistance syringe

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