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Table 2 Description of the task performed during the laparoscopic training parkour - 3D- vs. 4K-displaysystem

From: 3D vs. 4K Display System - Influence of “State-of-the-art”-Display Technique On Surgical Performance (IDOSP-Study) in minimally invasive surgery: protocol for a randomized cross-over trial

 

Tools

Description of task

Special mistakes

Task

 Rope pass

30 cm long silicon tube, marked every 3 cm, mark width 3 mm

Rope should be given from one hand to the other, only grasping at the marks

grasping the non-marked area

 Paper cut

8 cm long paper ruler, mark width 1 mm

Make a 0,5 cm long cut every 1 cm on the ruler

Cut through the paper or in non-marked area

 Pegboard transfer

Pegboard with 8 triangles, each placed on bars

mid-air transfer of triangles from left to right, back and forth

placing the triangles wrong

 Needle threading

Needle on a pin cushion, surgical thread

Needle should be hold in midair, thread should be laced through the eye of the needle

Thread slipped from the eye of the needle

 Needle recapping

18-gauge cannula and cap

Cannula should be recapped in mid-air

Cannula touches cap on the outside

 Circle cuttinga

Gauze with a 5 cm diameter two-lined circle, distance between the lines 5 mm

Circle should be cut out of the gauze between the lines

cut out of the marked area

 Knot tyinga

Surgical thread, vessel dummy with opening

one stitch suture with intracorporal knot should be performed

Slipping of thread

  1. anot performed by the novice group