Can armrests improve comfort and task performance in laparoscopic surgery?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 243, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 329-333

  Galleano, Raffaele ^a   Carter, Fiona ^a   Brown, Stuart ^a   Frank, Timothy ^a   Cuschieri, Alfred ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARMREST; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SIMULATOR; SPINE; SURGEON; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; ARM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE;

EID: 33644650720     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000201481.08336.dc     Document Type: Article

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