Open AccessDoes Surgical “Warming up” Improve Laparoscopic Simulator Performance?
Author(s) -
Jamie Kroft,
Michael Ordon,
Rebecca Arthur,
Richard Pittini
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
simulation in healthcare
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.685
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1559-713X
pISSN - 1559-2332
DOI - 10.1097/sih.0b013e31826230d4
Subject(s) - medicine , obstetrics and gynaecology , randomized controlled trial , physical therapy , laparoscopy , warming up , surgery , pregnancy , genetics , biology
The objective of this study was to determine if preoperative warming up by obstetrics and gynecology trainees, using a validated bench model for intracorporeal suturing, improves efficiency, precision, and quality of laparoscopic suturing.