RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Benchmarking Lumbar Puncture Fluoroscopy Time during Fellowship Training
JF American Journal of Neuroradiology
JO Am. J. Neuroradiol.
FD American Society of Neuroradiology
SP 656
OP 658
DO 10.3174/ajnr.A5031
VO 38
IS 3
A1 H. Yang
A1 K. Schaffer
A1 L. Liu
A1 M. Mahesh
A1 D.M. Yousem
YR 2017
UL http://www.ajnr.org/content/38/3/656.abstract
AB SUMMARY: We sought to establish a guide for identifying fellowship competency in performing fluoroscopically guided lumbar punctures. With a linear mixed-effects model, we compared the fluoroscopy time between the first and last 3 months of neuroradiology training. During 7 years, 55 fellows performed 1142 and 861 lumbar punctures in the first and last quarters of training. A target fluoroscopy time of 0.26 minutes, the upper 95% confidence interval, can serve as a fellowship benchmark for successfully achieving competence in fluoroscopically guided lumbar punctures.FGLPfluoroscopically guided lumbar punctureFTfluoroscopy time