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

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

A new assessment method for verbal communication in the operating room

Engineering for patient safety

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

Engineering for patient safety: the clinically driven approach

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

Rasmussen's model of human behaviour in laparoscopy trainign

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

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

Human reliability and training in minimally invasive surgery

Mechanical properties of mitral annuloplasty rings

Peroperative analysis of the surgical procedure

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

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

Development of laparoscopic instruments

Man-machine aspects of minimally invasive surgery

Navigation in virtual environments

Clinical request for new instruments in the minimally invasive cardiothoracic surgery

Myogenic reactivity and resistance distribution in the coronary arterial tree: a model study