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Recent guidelines advocate the use of real-time ultrasound to locate umbilical venous catheter tip. So far, training programs are not well established. A pre/post interventional study was carried out in our tertiary neonatal intensive care unit centre to evaluate the efficacy of a training protocol in the use of real-time ultrasound. Primary outcome was the percentage in the use of real-time ultrasound. Fifty-four patients were enrolled. The use of real-time ultrasound for tip location significantly increased after the training progra