Results of training with simulators vs people in peripheral venous catheterization to paramedicine students .

Abstract

Abstract:

Background: Paramedics perform several procedures at prehospital care, within them peripheral venous catheterization is the most frequent. Some experimental studies have used simulation as a method of teaching these practices.

Objective: To establish the results of training students in the second cycle
of paramedicine through the venipuncture simulator and in living individuals for venipuncture in adult patients.

Methodology: Randomized clinical study. 63 students of the 2nd cycle of
paramedicine were randomly assigned to a group that received training using the arm simulator for venipuncture and another group, in people. Primary outcomes were time and number of attempts for successful venipuncture. Descriptive statistics and chi square were used for qualitative variables. For the quantitative variables, the median, the interquartile range and the Mann-Whitney U test for different groups were used, with a value of p < 0.05 as statistically significant, using SPSS Statistics 23.

Results: By the one hand, the median for venipuncture time in the first group was 960 seconds and in the another one was 720 seconds (p = 0.072). By the other hand, the median number of attempts in the first group was 2 and in the second, 1 (p = 0.001).

Conclusion: Peripheral venous catheterization was performed with fewer attempts in the human training group, but there was no superiority between the teaching methods in terms of the time needed to perform the procedure.