Obtaining vascular access in critical ill or injured patients is one of the most important skills in emergency medicine. Lack of easily accessible peripheral venous sites is often seen due to hypovolemia, cold extremities, body habitus, vascular disease and injection drug use. Different commercial ultrasound (US) training models for intravenous cannulation (IVC) exists. They offer realistic imaging characteristics, but the models are often expensive, not readily available and their substance is patented. As a response to this others have developed homemade training phantoms for different US procedures, such as biopsies and cannulation of fluid filled spaces and vascular structures. All models have different benefits and drawbacks and their recipes vary in complexity. The latter could represent a barrier for widespread use. Our objective is to present a video showing how to make a gelatine training model for US guided IVC.
