In-service Training: Arterial Line Placement Workshop
Training Overview
Vygon provides educational material and organises practical workshops for all clinical staff to assist in the placement, care and maintenance, and removal of arterial lines.
This session focuses on the use of Vygon’s Leadercath Arterial line, using the Seldinger Technique, to provide a higher rate of successful insertions compared to the use of a cannula.
- Average Duration: 2-3 hours*
- Training Group Size: Up to 10 delegates per session
- Training Option: In-person workshop, supervised theatre placement, or local drop-in session.
*Session Duration depends on numbers of individuals attending the training, if more than 10 attendees, multiple sessions can be organised.
Training Materials: Supporting documents and videos are also available to support the training, and a certificate can be provided to demonstrate your continued professional development.
Training Overview
- Expanding Roles: Understand how nurses and AHPs are safely performing arterial line insertions.
- Anatomy & Site Selection: Learn the foundational principles for choosing the right cannulation site.
- Device Selection: Discover how to match the right catheter to the patient and clinical scenario.
- Patient Assessment & Consent: Navigate ethical and procedural considerations with confidence.
- Insertion Techniques: Master the Seldinger method and direct puncture with precision, training aid can be used for hands-on experience.
- Complication Management: Prevent, recognise, and respond to risks effectively.
- Post-Insertion Care & Removal: Ensure safe maintenance and removal for optimal outcomes.
The training and topics can be adapted to meet your needs and requirements including device and subject focus and can be delivered as dedicated sessions or a drop-in format.
Training Suitability:
- Clinical staff in Critical Care & ICU settings
- Operating surgeons
- Operating Theatre Staff & Departments
- Junior Doctors rotational training
In-service Training Options from Vygon UK
Our training for healthcare professionals can be delivered in a number of ways, to best suit the needs of your team and departmental requirements. We understand that training in a busy department often doesn’t take a one-size-fits all approach.
We can flex the topics and style of training to suit your requirements. This can take the form of a dedicated training and workshop session, individual ward-based drop-in sessions, or part of a Trust organised study day.
Whether your department needs a refresher session, or in-depth theory and gaining practical hand-on experience, we are on hand to support you with your clinical training requirements.
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