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Comparative Evaluation of Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Insertion Techniques in a Virtual Reality Simulator.
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- A professional training simulator for skill acquisition in ultrasound-guided lumbar facet syndrome intervention: design and educational evaluation.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Article
- Comparative Evaluation of Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Insertion Techniques in a Virtual Reality Simulator.Healthcare technology lettersArticle
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Abstract
Peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) insertion is a common yet challenging procedure. Although ultrasound guidance improves procedural accuracy and patient outcome, its complexity limits its routine adoption to highly experienced clinicians. This paper introduces a virtual reality (VR) simulator developed specifically for training in ultrasound-guided PIVC insertions. This study aims to validate the simulator's realism and relevance through face, content, and construct assessments, and to demonstrate its utility as a platform for comparing various approaches to PIVC insertion. Thirty participants from diverse medical backgrounds and levels of expertise completed three scenarios, each featuring a different procedural technique, within the simulator's controlled virtual environment. The simulator demonstrated strong face and content validity, with participants rating its realism at 7.1/10 and enjoyment at 8.2/10. Performance data showed that expert participants maintained higher success rates and performance across all procedural scenarios, supporting the simulator's construct validity. In the standard approach scenario, novices required 230.91
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