Objective assessment of telesurgical robot systems: Telerobotic FLS
Lum, M.J.H.; Friedman, D.C.W.; Sankaranarayanan, G.; King, H.; Wright, A.; Sinanan, M.; Lendvay, T.; Rosen, J.; Hannaford, B.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 132: 263-265
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 18391301 Document Number: 615892
The Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) program contains curriculum that includes both a cognitive and psychomotor skills. In this research the use of FLS Block Transfer task is used to evaluate the performance of surgeons' teleoperating the University of Washington Surgical robot. The use of the FLS Trainer Box and accessories kit provides a well-defined series of tasks that can be repeated by any researchers working in the field of surgical robotics so that systems can be evaluated using a common method.