Video gaming facilitates adaptation to surgical exoscopes - a laboratory experiment.

IF 1.9 3区医学 Q3 CLINICAL NEUROLOGY

Acta Neurochirurgica Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI:10.1007/s00701-025-06589-2

Adam Yousfi, Anni Pohjola, Ville Vasankari, Ahmad Hafez, Martin Lehecka

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Abstract

Introduction: Digital 3D exoscopes are novel alternatives for operating microscopes in microneurosurgery. We studied the potential benefits of a background in video gaming on adaptation to exoscopic microsurgery. Such effects have not been reported before.

Methods: Twenty preclinical medical and dental students with no surgical experience participated in our study. Eleven (gamer group) were proficient (> 1000 h) in video gaming, whereas nine (control group) had no to very little gaming experience (< 500 h). We developed a microsurgical training model for evaluating adaptation to exoscope use in a manual task. Each student completed the task thrice in a row. We evaluated handling of the exoscope, fine motor skills, and the duration of each performance.

Results: Prior video gaming experience correlated with superior adaptation to the exoscope. Gamers moved and tilted the exoscope camera less often than the control group but nevertheless obtained good visuals. The gamer group also completed all tasks faster (median 10 min 14 s) than the control group (median 13 min 01 s). All students improved in their task completion times over the test period. Similar fine motor skills were observed in both the gamer and the control group.

Conclusion: Prior experience in video gaming was associated with better adaptability to the exoscope. This may be due to superior 3D perception, acquired playing video games.

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电子游戏有助于适应外科外窥镜——一个实验室实验。

数字3D外窥镜是显微神经外科手术显微镜的新选择。我们研究了视频游戏背景对适应外窥镜显微手术的潜在益处。这样的影响以前没有报道过。方法：20名没有外科经验的临床前医学和牙科学生参与研究。11人（游戏玩家组）精通电子游戏（bb0 1000小时），而9人（对照组）没有或很少有游戏经验（结果：先前的电子游戏经验与对外窥镜的良好适应相关）。与对照组相比，游戏玩家移动和倾斜外视镜的频率较低，但仍然获得了良好的视觉效果。游戏玩家组完成所有任务的速度也比对照组快（平均10分14秒）（平均13分01秒）。在测试期间，所有学生的任务完成时间都有所提高。在游戏玩家和对照组中都观察到类似的精细运动技能。结论：先前的视频游戏经验与更好的外窥镜适应性有关。这可能是由于玩电子游戏获得的优越的3D感知能力。

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Acta Neurochirurgica 医学-临床神经学

CiteScore

4.40

自引率

4.20%

发文量

342

审稿时长

1 months

期刊介绍： The journal "Acta Neurochirurgica" publishes only original papers useful both to research and clinical work. Papers should deal with clinical neurosurgery - diagnosis and diagnostic techniques, operative surgery and results, postoperative treatment - or with research work in neuroscience if the underlying questions or the results are of neurosurgical interest. Reports on congresses are given in brief accounts. As official organ of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies the journal publishes all announcements of the E.A.N.S. and reports on the activities of its member societies. Only contributions written in English will be accepted.