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A comparative study on the effect of laparoscopic simulation on skill training in laparoscopic surgery
Mohamed Lotfy, Mohamed I. Abdelhamid, Hazem N. Ashri
Department of General and Laparoscopic
Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig
University, Zagzig, Egypt
CorrespondencetoMohamedLotfyAli,MD ,
Department of General and Laparoscopic
Surgery, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
Tel: + 20 106 014 0862; e-mail: lotfymira@yahoo.com
The Egyptian Journal of Surgery 2017
Context
This study examined the effect of using laparoscopic simulation on the enhancement of psychomotor capabilities linked to performing laparoscopic appendectomy. Participants and methods
Thirty surgical trainees carried out a laparoscopic appendectomy in the operating room (OR). The …show more content…

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© 2017 The Egyptian Journal of Surgery | Published by Wolters Kluwer - Medknow DOI: 10.4103/ejs.ejs_29_17
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required the participant to hold the sphere ,touch it with the tip of the other instrument ,remove and re - enter this instrument , and once more touch the sphere . Task 5 involvedputtingathreadthroughasequenceofholes.Task6 involved making an intracorporeal knot .Within 3 weeks aftertheinitialoperation,allparticipantscarriedoutanother laparoscopic appendectomy , supervised by an expert laparoscopic surgeonwhowas blinded tothetraining status
. The operations carried out by the participants were documented on video tapes and assessed by two senior surgeons highly skilled in laparoscopic surgery .We compared the time required to carry out the two

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