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Peritoneal dialysis (PD) represents a keystone modality for renal replacement therapy. However, one of the main barriers limiting the wider application of PD—especially in urgent-start programs—is the lack of readily available expertise for timely and safe catheter insertion. Surgeons are vital element in the PD teams, but most of the time they are very busy. Bed-side percutaneous PD catheter insertion is an important life-saving skill that can be the backbone for a successful PD program.
Our center is currently the only ISN-accredited PD regional training center in North Africa, which places upon us a major responsibility to advance education and procedural competency. While international initiatives such as the “Saving Young Lives” campaign have greatly contributed to promoting PD use, including our own skills as we were among their attendees, they often lack structured ultrasound (US) training component. The use of ultrasound (US) can substantially improve patient safety and procedure outcomes by facilitating accurate localization of the needle tip, preventing bowel injury, identifying inferior epigastric vessels, and confirming presence of fluid in the hepato-renal and rectovesical space to ensure adequate space filling before catheter insertion.
Our young trainee’s progression needs to be optimized. They study the steps and attend the procedure, but they are slow in acquiring the desired skills. In response to these needs, we organized a hands-on workshop for interventional nephrologists focusing on ultrasound-guided PD catheter insertion techniques, aiming to improve procedural skills, confidence, and patient safety across participating centers.
Kern's Six-step approach was used to design the curriculum for the US-guided PD catheter insertion workshop. Trainees who had a chance to attend the insertion technique were interviewed to screen for the challenging point that impaired their learning curve. All the challenges were well addressed by Kern’s approach and summarized in Table 1.
The workshop was held and 15 nephrologist trainees applied to it. Regarding the approach simplification, trainees were able to re-perform the steps on the human body mannequin successfully with a mean score of 3 points out of 4. Most trainees were successful in US maneuvering. All of them were successful in the required key aspects of the gelatin-based models. Inferior epigastric vessels detection was attainable by 12 out of 15 trainees, and all could easily identify the parietal peritoneum. Feedback surveys revealed strong satisfaction, with all trainees expressing interest in repeating similar workshops for other interventional nephrology skills. The two best-performing candidates were more confident in their skills and could successfully learn and gradually apply in the following cases.
Hands on teaching is fundamental in acquiring micro skills needed for PD catheter insertion. Intellectual lectures alone are not sufficient in this psychomotor domain of learning. This model would enable a wider dissemination of life-saving techniques like US-guided PD catheter insertion. We suggest the integration of this educational model into nephrology training curricula.
