An Ergonomic Assessment Of Four Different Donor Nephrectomy Approaches For The Surgeons And Their Assistants.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Open surgery is increasingly being replaced by laparoscopic approaches that are more demanding for the surgical team. The physical and mental workload of these approaches have not been quantified.

Materials and methods

A multicenter prospective study was performed evaluating the physical and mental stresses of 4 surgical approaches (open surgery [OS], standard laparoscopy [SL], hand-assisted laparoscopy [HAL], and robot-assisted laparoscopy [RAL]) for donor nephrectomy for the surgeon and their assistant. The Borg Scale was used to evaluate exertion in different body parts every 30 mins during surgery and the NASA-TLX score was used to evaluate overall workload.

Results

264 nephrectomies were performed over a 33-month period and 258 questionnaires evaluat

SUBMITTER: Marcon B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6773969 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature