The effect of a preoperative warm-up with a custom-made Nintendo video game on the performance of laparoscopic surgeons

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2284-2290

  Jalink, M B ^a   Heineman, E ^a   Pierie, J P E N ^a   ten Cate Hoedemaker, H O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Education; Laparoscopy; Simulator; Video games; Warm up

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; POWER ANALYSIS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECREATION; RESIDENT; SIMULATOR; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; VALIDITY; VIDEORECORDING; WARM UP; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; LAPAROSCOPY; RANDOMIZATION; VIDEO GAME;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SURGEONS; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84937943510     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-014-3943-6     Document Type: Article

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