Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital Receives Academic Encouragement Award from the Korean Society of CT Imaging Technology

Proven Effectiveness of Self-Made Support Stand to Assist Chest Needle Biopsy

Suncheonhyang University Cheonan Hospital announced on the 8th that its Radiology Team won the Academic Encouragement Award at the 25th Spring Academic Conference of the Korean Society of CT Technology.

The Radiology Team demonstrated the usefulness of a self-made support device in their paper titled "Evaluation of the Usefulness of a Self-Made Device in the Prone Position during CT-Guided Percutaneous Chest Needle Biopsy."

Chest needle biopsy, necessary for investigating the causes of lung lesions, is performed in the prone position. Until now, patients had to fold sheets to maintain posture and undergo the procedure in a hard environment. In this process, inappropriate needle insertion angles and distances increased the risk of complications such as pneumothorax and bleeding, prompting the need for improvement.

After research to solve this problem, the Radiology Team at Suncheonhyang University Cheonan Hospital produced a support device using 3D printing.

The support device significantly reduced examination complications in clinical practice and provided comfort to patients.

Min-su Kim, a radiologic technologist and the paper's author, explained, "A larger angle and shorter distance reduce the incidence of pneumothorax. When using the support device, the angle formed between the face and the scapula increased by an average of 6.06˚, and the needle insertion distance from the pleura to the lesion shortened by an average of 4.80mm."

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