High density optical neuroimaging predicts surgeons's subjective experience and skill levels.

ABSTRACT: Measuring cognitive load is important for surgical education and patient safety. Traditional approaches of measuring cognitive load of surgeons utilise behavioural metrics to measure performance and surveys and questionnaires to collect reports of subjective experience. These have disadvantages such as sporadic data, occasionally intrusive methodologies, subjective or misleading self-reporting. In addition, traditional approaches use subjective metrics that cannot distinguish between skill levels. Functional neuroimaging data was collected using a high density, wireless NIRS device from sixteen surgeons (11 attending surgeons and 5 surgery resident) and 17 students while they performed two laparoscopic tasks (Peg transfer and String pass). Participant's subjective mental load was assessed

SUBMITTER: Keles HO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7891714 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature