A virtual instrument ergonomics workstation to measure surgeons' physical stress

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 62, Issue , 1999, Pages 49-54

  Berguer, Ramon ^a   Chen, Chien Yu ^b   Smith, Warren D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; LAPAROSCOPY; SURGERY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

FORCE TRANSMISSION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LONG DURATION; OPEN SURGERY; PHYSICAL STRESS; PHYSICAL WORKLOADS; VARIATION ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT;

DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; EXERCISE; HUMAN; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; THUMB;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; EXERTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; THUMB;

EID: 0032610741     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-906-6-49     Document Type: Conference Paper

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