A simple virtual instrument to monitor surgeons' workload while they perform minimally invasive surgery tasks

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 98, Issue , 2004, Pages 363-369

  Smith, Warren D ^a   Berguer, Ramon ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SURGERY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERIES (MIS); MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; ORIENTATION SENSORS; PERFORMANCE LEVEL; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; TRAJECTORY LENGTH; VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT;

SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; MANPOWER; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; SURGERY; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

SURGERY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 16544364333     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-942-4-363     Document Type: Conference Paper

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