Ergonomic assessment of the static stress confronted by surgeons during laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1118-1122

  Vereczkei, A ^a   Feussner, H ^b   Negele, T ^b   Fritzsche, F ^c   Seitz, T ^c   Bubb, H ^c   Horvath O P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ergonomics; Posture analysis; Static stress

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERGONOMICS; HEAD; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE; STRESS; SURGEON; TELEVISION; TIME; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 3142773541     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-003-9157-y     Document Type: Article

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