Towards safer laparoscopic surgery: Training and assessment of surgical skills and equipment handling

The objective of this thesis is to improve laparoscopic surgical skills training and assessment with an emphasis on equipment-related safety and competence. A comparison was made between a hospital and a petrochemical company and showed that employees at the petrochemical company were trained and certified in equipment handling much more...

The surgical lighting problem: ‘Manipulation problems with the surgical lighting system during surgical procedures’

Ergonomic problems of surgical lighting systems have been indicated by surgeons; however, the underlying causes are not clear. The aim of this dissertation is to assess the problems in detail, and subsequently clarify the underlying causes. In the first stage of the research, the observation method was used to quantify the luminaire use during...

Improving skills related to medical equipment: An interactive training simulation

Background: Incidents with medical equipment have been observed by several studies [6, 4], and the lack of proper training has been identified as one of the main reasons for the occurrence of these errors . Providing proper training is costly and logistically problematic for hospitals. Simulations can successfully resolve some of these problems,...