Why adopting Accuro for epidural needle guidance is a good recommendation and practice | RIVANNA

Accuro®. Made For Epidural Guidance.

Rebecca Minehart, MD, MSHPEd — Boston
Rebecca Minehart explains why adopting Accuro for epidural needle guidance in labor and delivery (especially in patients with challenging anatomy) is her recommendation and practice. Moreover, she presents a case supporting the use of Accuro to improve patient satisfaction and potentially minimize patient anxiety.

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Certainty Can Be Effortless.

We’ve eliminated the barriers of conventional ultrasound. Accuro’s state-of-the-art image guidance includes BoneEnhance®, which is designed to visualize bone landmarks, and SpineNav3D™, which guides you with automatic epidural location and depth.

Proven Clinical Benefits:
• 48% Reduction inneedle redirects*.
• 57% Reduction in needle insertion time*.
• 95% Overall patient satisfaction*.

We anticipate providers will migrate to an image-guided standard of care in neuraxial anesthesia for the benefit of all patients and providers. Don’t Get Left Behind.

Accuro with lumbar mode preset

1. SEE more than 5X* enhancement of bone-to-tissue contrast with BoneEnhance® image reconstruction technology.

2. FIND the ideal insertion point with Midline (red dashed line) and Cross Hair indicators.

3. AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFY epidural location with success rates exceeding 94%* using SpineNav3D™ technology.

4. MARK needle placement or perform real-time needle guidance with the Accuro Locator™ needle guide.

Performance claims from M. Tiouririne et al., (2017); K. Seligman, et al., (2017); G. Capogna, et al., (2018); Singla et al., (2019); D. Ghisi et al., (2019)