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A serious game to improve situation awareness in laparoscopic surgery

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Games for Health

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Safety analyses show that errors in surgery are more frequently caused by misperceptions and misjudgments than from technical failure of the surgeons. The adaptive coupling between humans and their environment, based on the perception and comprehension of signs and signals when performing a complex task, is referred to as situation awareness (SA). To date, no off-site training methods are offered to improve SA in surgical trainees. To aid the improvement of SA in minimally invasive surgery (MIS), a serious game was designed for surgical trainees. This serious game teaches surgical trainees to deal with major and minor problems in the minimallyinvasive surgical theatre that originate outside of the direct line of sight. Serious games are instructional methods that allow serious skills training in a challenging environment. This paper discusses insights on design, development and evaluation of a game-based educational program for surgical residents.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Centre, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, 22660, 1100 DD, The Netherlands

    Maurits Graafland MD & Marlies P. Schijven MD,PhD,MHSc

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  1. Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Ben Schouten

  2. ATNOVUS, Zug, Switzerland

    Stephen Fedtke

  3. Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Tilde Bekker

  4. Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Marlies Schijven

  5. Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Alex Gekker

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Graafland, M., Schijven, M. (2013). A serious game to improve situation awareness in laparoscopic surgery. In: Schouten, B., Fedtke, S., Bekker, T., Schijven, M., Gekker, A. (eds) Games for Health. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02897-8_13

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