An Innovative Meat Model-Based Faculty Development Workshop to Increase Faculty Comfort with Performing Nerve Blocks

摘要

Background: Performing nerve blocks is an increasinglyimportant skill in the practice of emergency medicine. They arean effective means of controlling pain and decreasing opiate use.A major barrier to widespread adoption is the lack of comfortwith these procedures. Meat models have been described as away to simulate these procedures, but these models have notdescribed the ability to practice hydrodissection along a fascialplane. This is important when performing fascial compartmentnerve blocks. We describe a low-cost meat model that allows forhydrodissection and its effectiveness in improving comfort withperforming two nerve blocks.