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Effect of ultrasound image enhancement software on the quality of vision of regional anesthesia needles.

Minerva Anestesiologica 2018 September 11
BACKGROUND: Our objective was to evaluate and compare the visualization of different types of needles with or without ultrasound image enhancement software, both in biological tissues and artificial models.

METHODS: This is an observational study on fresh porcine tissue and gelatin models. Six types of plexus needles were studied. The same anesthesiologist performed inplane punctures with each needle at 30°, 40° and 50° in both 2D mode and using software-based enhanced mode without changing position, generating 72 images. The images were evaluated blind by 38 anesthesiologists with at least 2 years of experience in ultrasound and rated from 0 to 10. A univariate and multivariate analysis was performed to identify differences between the images according to needle, mode, angle and experimental model. We described the results as mean (standard deviation).

RESULTS: The Echoplex needle, 8.31 (1.94), was significantly better than the Sonoplex needle, 7.53 (2.16), p = 0.0003, and both were significantly better than the other needles (p < 0.0001). Significant differences were also found in favor of the gelatin model, 7.26 (2.48) vs 6.24 (3.67), p < 0.0001, and with ultrasound image enhancement software, 8.59 (1.55) vs 4.91 (3.31), p < 0.0001. These differences were confirmed by multivariate analysis.

CONCLUSIONS: Although there are differences between the different types of Needles used with ultrasound visualization strategies, ultrasound image enhancement software provides good visualization, regardless of the model chosen.

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