Intra-operative disruptions, surgeon’s mental workload, and technical performance in a full-scale simulated procedure

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 559-566

  Weigl, Matthias ^a   Stefan, Philipp ^b   Abhari, Kamyar ^c   Wucherer, Patrick ^b   Fallavollita, Pascal ^b   Lazarovici, Marc ^a   Weidert, Simon ^d   Euler, Ekkehard ^d   Catchpole, Ken ^e  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow disruption; Performance; Simulation; Stress; Surgery; Workload

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; FLOW DISRUPTION; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; JOB PERFORMANCE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; TRAUMATOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY; WORKLOAD; ATTENTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MANIKIN; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WORKFLOW;

ATTENTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANIKINS; SURGEONS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VERTEBROPLASTY; WORKFLOW; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84957844962     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-015-4239-1     Document Type: Article

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