Performance using a visuo-haptic surgical simulator is affected by age
Mara Coduri, Chiara Saporetti, Michele Minuto, Maura Casadio, Serena Ricci · 2026
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Description
Mara Coduri and colleagues present in 2026 a test of how age affects basic surgical skills on a simulator that combines sight and touch. Twenty younger adults and nineteen older adults each repeated three tasks, covering cutting, needle handling and stitching.
Younger participants cut more tissue, made fewer dexterity errors and stitched faster across the tasks. Both groups improved with practice, although the older group improved less. The authors suggest regular simulator practice could help older clinicians keep their skills sharp. Readers interested in surgical training get a simple, repeatable way to measure age-related change without putting patients at risk.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mara Coduri, Chiara Saporetti, Michele Minuto, Maura Casadio, Serena Ricci |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39362 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC0 |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |