Body position affects manual dexterity

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1879-1883

  Buffington, Charles W ^a,b   MacMurdo, Stanley D ^a   Ryan, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b N463 MUH ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; EVALUATION; EYE HAND COORDINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEELING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE ANESTHETIST; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RESIDENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SITTING; STANDING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33744481253     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000217124.94291.98     Document Type: Article

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