Video Gaming Improves Robotic Surgery Simulator Success

Ege University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Simulator

Robotic Surgery

Treatments

Other: Video game & Robotic surgery simulator success

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05510960

21-3T/17

Details and patient eligibility

About

Investigators aimed to investigate the effects of video game habits, duration of experience, and training in different surgical clinics on the success of robotic surgery simulators.

In this prospective, observational, comparative, and multi-clinic study, all participants played the Temple Run and Piano Tiles 2™ mobile games for one month after responding to a questionnaire including their sociodemographic characteristics, surgical experience, and past and current video game experience. At the end of the study period, participants experienced four different robotic surgery simulator tasks (Camera Targeting 1, Energy Switching 1, Ring & Rail 2, Vertical Defect Suturing) in the da Vinci® Skills Simulator™. Additionally, sociodemographic data were statistically analyzed with mobile game scores, and 13 different performance scores were obtained from the simulator.

Enrollment

60 patients

Sex

All

Ages

24 to 39 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

To be a physician trained in Surgery in the Department of General Surgery. Pediatric Surgery and Urology.
To be an assistant and specialist of the departments with robotic surgery experience.
To be acquainted with laparoscopic surgery.
Having played video games.

Exclusion criteria