Quantifying mental workloads of surgeons performing natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) procedures

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1352-1358

  Zheng, Bin ^a   Rieder, Erwin ^b   Cassera, Maria A ^b   Martinec, Danny V ^b   Lee, Gyusung ^c   Panton, O Neely M ^a   Park, Adrian ^c   Swanström, Lee L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Oregon Clinic   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Endoscopy training; Mental workload; Secondary task; Surgical education; Visual detection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BENCHTOP; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; HUMAN; HYBRID; JOB PERFORMANCE; LAPAROSCOPY; MENTAL CAPACITY; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 84863513926     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-011-2038-x     Document Type: Article

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