Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 2 , Pages 246-254 , February 2010

Impact of sleep deprivation on medium-term psychomotor and cognitive performance of surgeons: Prospective cross-over study with a virtual surgery simulator and psychometric tests

  • Kai S. Lehmann, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of General, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Charité–Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Kai S. Lehmann, MD, Department of General, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Chirurgische Klinik und Hochschulambulanz I, Charité–Campus Benjamin Franklin, Hindenburgdamm 30 D-12200 Berlin, Germany.
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  • Peter Martus, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology, Charité—Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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  • Samia Little-Elk

      Affiliations

    • Department of General, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Charité–Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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  • Heiko Maass, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Applied Computer Science, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
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  • Christoph Holmer, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of General, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Charité–Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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  • Urte Zurbuchen, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of General, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Charité–Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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  • Georg Bretthauer, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Applied Computer Science, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
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  • Heinz J. Buhr, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCS

      Affiliations

    • Department of General, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Charité–Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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  • Joerg P. Ritz, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Applied Computer Science, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

,Accepted 20 August 2009.

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 Funded by a grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF), Ref.-No. HapticIO FKZ 01IRA03C.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00500-5

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.08.007

Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 2 , Pages 246-254 , February 2010

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