Surgical gestures can be used to assess surgical competence in robot-assisted surgery : A validity investigating study of simulated RARP.

ABSTRACT: To collect validity evidence for the assessment of surgical competence through the classification of general surgical gestures for a simulated robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP). We used 165 video recordings of novice and experienced RARP surgeons performing three parts of the RARP procedure on the RobotiX Mentor. We annotated the surgical tasks with different surgical gestures: dissection, hemostatic control, application of clips, needle handling, and suturing. The gestures were analyzed using idle time (periods with minimal instrument movements) and active time (whenever a surgical gesture was annotated). The distribution of surgical gestures was described using a one-dimensional heat map, snail tracks. All surgeons had a similar percentage of idle time but novices had longer ph

SUBMITTER: Olsen RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10799775 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature