Optimizing laparoscopic task efficiency: The role of camera and monitor positions

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 980-984

  Haveran, Liam A ^a   Novitsky, Yuri W ^a,b   Czerniach, Donald R ^a   Kaban, Gordie K ^a   Taylor, Melinda ^a   Gallagher Dorval, Karen ^a   Schmidt, Richard ^c   Kelly, John J ^a   Litwin, Demetrius E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera positioning; Laparoscopy; Monitor positioning; Surgical education; Task efficiency

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MONITOR; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGEON; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPES; LAPAROSCOPY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VIDEO-ASSISTED SURGERY;

EID: 34447328757     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-007-9360-3     Document Type: Article

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