Analysis of verbal communication during teaching in the operating room and the potentials for surgical training

New technologies supporting surgical interventions and training of surgical skills - A look at projects in Europe supporting minimally invasive techniques

A new assessment method for verbal communication in the operating room

Engineering for patient safety: the clinically driven approach

Engineering for patient safety

A new method for communication analyses in endoscopic surgery, its validation and the potential consequences for training

Does virtual reality training make sense in interventional radiology? Training skill-, rule- and knowledge-based behavior

Gunnar Johannsen's vision on the human control of complex systems

Human reliability and training in minimally invasive surgery

Rasmussen's model of human behaviour in laparoscopy trainign

A cybernetic analysis of the tunnel-in-the-sky display

Mechanical properties of mitral annuloplasty rings

Peroperative analysis of the surgical procedure

Time-action analysis of laparoscopic procedures - input for clinically driven instrument design

Man-machine aspects of minimally invasive surgery

Development of laparoscopic instruments

Navigation in virtual environments

Biomedical engineering: an interesting multidisciplinary human-machine systems field with many problems and challenges

Endoscopic camera rotation: a conceptual solution to improve hand-eye coordination in minimally-invasive surgery

Clinical request for new instruments in the minimally invasive cardiothoracic surgery