Assessment of simulated surgical skills in parabolic microgravity

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 385-391

  Rafiq, Azhar ^a,d   Broderick, Timothy J ^b   Williams, David R ^c   Doarn, Charles R ^b   Jones, Jeffrey A ^c   Merrell, Ronald C ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Laparoscopic surgery; Laparoscopic surgical simulation; Medical care; Surgery in space; Training

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLIP; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; SIMULATION; SKILL; SPACE FLIGHT; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; PARABOLIC FLIGHT; SHORT DURATION;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; SPACE FLIGHT; SURGERY; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 16244376849     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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