False patients of today for future real doctors

Following the recommendations of the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS), the Pierre and Marie Curie Faculty of Medicine decided at the end of 2011 to develop “teaching by simulation” in the second cycle of medical studies. A group of pediatric teachers, led by Professor Arnaud Petit, was formed to set up a pediatric module within a simulation platform at Trousseau hospital. Dedicated to the management of respiratory distress and cardiac arrest in children, this module has trained 2,500 medical students.

Lumbar puncture training in children

To help students train themselves in the practice of lumbar punctures in children, a particularly delicate gesture to be performed in young children, Professor Arnaud Petit proposed to develop a new workshop on this platform to give students the opportunity to practice on small silicone mannequins the size of an eight month old child. Lumbar puncture is a medical examination that collects cerebrospinal fluid, or cerebrospinal fluid through a puncture in the back, between two vertebrae. In addition to the indications when meningitis is suspected, lumbar puncture is systematic in any newborn who is ill. Unfortunately, the current equipment of three mannequins does not allow this education to be provided to the 400 medical students.

A “crowd-funding” campaign

Buying 5 additional mannequins would make it possible to offer these training courses under better conditions: by increasing the number of mannequins, all students will be able to benefit from this education. The objective is therefore to have 8 mannequins in total, which will allow the platform to greatly improve the educational quality of this teaching.

For the first step of a lumbar puncture in children to take place in optimal conditions, Pierre and Marie Curie University needs you! By making a donation for this campaign, you are supporting initial university training (medical students, pediatric interns, nurses, nursery nurses, midwives, etc.), as well as the development of continuing education (pediatricians , general practitioners, gynecologists-obstreticians, midwives …) and, in the end, you support the maintenance of excellence and the medicine of tomorrow.

Support the crowdfunding campaign
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This project received support from the Laurette Fugain association and the Action Leucémies association. These two associations were particularly sensitive to this project, because the lumbar puncture is a delicate gesture, essential to cure children suffering from leukemia.