Measurement of laparoscopic skills in microgravity anticipates the space surgeon

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 188, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 549-552

  Panait, Lucian ^a   Broderick, Timothy ^b   Rafiq, Azhar ^a   Speich, John ^c   Doarn, Charles R ^b   Merrell, Ronald C ^a  

^a Virginia Cmw Univ   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

KC 135; Laparoscopic surgery; Microgravity; Surgical skills

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MICROGRAVITY; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 8544232113     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2004.07.029     Document Type: Article

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