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Specific lumbar puncture training during clinical clerkship durably increases atraumatic needle use

BACKGROUND: Atraumatic needles are proposed to lower complication rates after lumbar puncture (LP). Only a minority of physicians use such needles. Here we aimed to assess the impact of specific training in LP during clinical clerkship on the proportion of medical students using atraumatic needles....

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Autores principales: Moisset, Xavier, Pereira, Bruno, Jamet, Carole, Saturnin, Alexandre, Clavelou, Pierre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6557568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31181132
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218004