Robotic assistance improves intracorporeal suturing performance and safety in the operating room while decreasing operator workload

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 377-382

  Stefanidis, Dimitrios ^a   Wang, Fikre ^b   Korndorffer Jr , James R ^b   Dunne, J Bruce ^b   Scott, Daniel J ^c  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Laparoscopic suturing; Performance assessment; Robotic suturing; Simulation; Workload

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; JOB PERFORMANCE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NONHUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROBOTICS; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; SWINE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 77649182479     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-009-0578-0     Document Type: Article

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