Which types of peripheral nerve blocks should be included in residency training programs?

BMC Anesthesiology

Research Article

Ana M Espinoza¹  Fernando R Altermatt²  Marcia A Corvetto²  Ghislaine C Echevarria³ 

[1] Departmento de Anestesiología, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile;División de Anestesiología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile;División de Anestesiología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile;Department of Anesthesiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA;

关键词: Medical education;    Peripheral nerve blocks;    Survey;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12871-015-0001-4

 received in 2014-07-13, accepted in 2015-01-30,  发布年份 2015

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundDespite the increasing use of regional anesthesia, specific recommendations regarding the type of procedures to be included in residency training programs are not currently available. We aimed to determine the nerve block techniques that practicing Chilean anesthesiologists perceived as essential to master during residency training.MethodsAfter institutional ethics committee approval, an online survey was sent to 154 anesthesiologists that graduated between 2005–2012, from the two largest university residency programs in Chile. Multiple-choice questions elicited responses concerning the use of regional anesthesia.ResultsA total of 109 questionnaires were completed, which corresponded to a response rate of 70.8%. Almost all (98.2%) of the respondents used regional anesthesia in their clinical practice, 86.7% regularly performed peripheral nerve blocks (PNBs) and 51% used continuous PNB techniques. Residency programs represented their primary source of training. The most common PNB techniques performed were interscalene (100%), femoral (98%), popliteal sciatic (93%), and Bier block (90%). Respondents indicated that they were most confident performing femoral (98%), Bier block (90%), interscalene (90%), and popliteal sciatic (85%) blocks. The PNBs perceived as essential for their actual clinical practice were femoral (81%), interscalene (80%), popliteal sciatic (76%), and Bier blocks (62%).ConclusionsRequesting information from former anesthesiology residents may be a source of information, guiding the specific types of PNBs that should be included in residency training. Other groups can easily replicate this methodology to create their own evidence and clinical practice based guidelines for residency training programs.

【 授权许可】

Unknown   
© Corvetto et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.