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- Laparoscopic surgical skills are influenced by the surgeon's experience and training, impacting their cognitive resources and increasing the risk of biliary injuries.
- The study examined eye metrics—specifically saccadic movements, fixations, and pupillary responses—during live laparoscopic surgeries performed by surgeons of varying expertise (novice, semi-expert, expert).
- Out of 42 surgeries, 38 were analyzed, revealing three reliable eye metrics that help differentiate skill levels among surgeons during these procedures.
Article Abstract
Laparoscopic skills vary with experience and training of surgeons. The complexity of laparoscopic surgeries affects the cognitive resources of surgeons significantly and leads to many biliary injuries during surgeries. Assuming that experts are more focused, we investigated how the skill level of surgeons during live surgery is reflected through eye metrics. Throughout the study, we used five eye movement metrics classified under saccadic, fixations and pupillary metrics. Forty-two laparoscopic surgeries have been conducted with four surgeons belonging to three expertise levels (novice, semi-expert and expert) from which thirty-eight surgeries were considered in the study. With the use of mean, standard deviation and ANOVA test we found three reliable metrics which we can use to differentiate the skill levels during live surgeries.
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