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LEPRECHAUN · Credits: 2108 My Scrapbook

GAMES & GADGETS

Adam Rountree / AP Surgeons may err less by playing video games
Three hours a week decreased mistakes
by 37 percent, study finds
Dr. Asaf Yalif plays a video game during a news conference at Beth Israel Hospital in New York.

By Verena Dobnik
The Associated Press
Updated: 4:04 p.m. ET April 07, 2004
NEW YORK - All those years on the couch playing Nintendo and PlayStation appear to be paying off for surgeons. Researchers found that doctors who spent at least three hours a week playing video games made about 37 percent fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery and performed the task 27 percent faster than their counterparts who did not play video games.

"I use the same hand-eye coordination to play video games as I use for surgery," said Dr. James "Butch" Rosser, 49, who demonstrated the results of his study Tuesday at Beth Israel Medical Center.

Laparoscopic surgery — using a tiny camera and instruments controlled by joysticks outside the body — is performed on just about any part of the body, from an appendix to the colon and gall bladder.

The minimally intrusive surgery involves making tiny keyhole incisions, inserting a mini-video camera that sends images to an external video screen, with the surgical tools remote-controlled by the surgeon watching the screen. Surgeons can now practice their techniques through video simulations.

Rosser said the skill needed for laparoscopic surgery is "like tying your shoelaces with 3-foot-long chopsticks."

"Yes, here we go!" said Rosser, sitting in front of a Super Monkey Ball game, which shoots a ball into a confined goal. "This is a nice, wholesome game. No blood and guts. But I need the same kind of skill to go into a body and sew two pieces of intestine together."

The study on whether good video game skills translate into surgical prowess was done by researchers with Beth Israel and the National Institute on Media and the Family at Iowa State University. It was based on testing 33 fellow doctors — 12 attending physicians and 21 medical school residents who participated from May to August 2003.

More about the study
Each doctor completed three video game tasks that tested such factors as motor skills, reaction time and hand-eye coordination.

The study "landmarks the arrival of Generation X into medicine," said the study's co-author, Dr. Paul J. Lynch, a Beth Israel anesthesiologist who has studied the effects of video games for years.

Kurt Squire, a University of Wisconsin researcher of video game effects on learning, said that "with a video game, you can definitely develop timing and a sense of touch, as well as a very intuitive feel for manipulating devices."

Squire, who was not involved in Rosser's project, said applying such games to surgery training "could play a key role in preparing medical health professionals."

Beth Israel is now experimenting with applying the findings.

Rosser has developed a course called Top Gun, in which surgical trainees warm up their coordination, agility and accuracy with a video game before entering the operating room.

"It's like a good football player," Rosser said, "you have to warm up first."
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Huuumm...NOW WHO LIKES TO PLAY GAMES..N WHICH ONE...N WAT DO U THINK....DO UTHINK THAT WILL HELP U....WAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES N DISADVANTAGES OF A DOC AGE 40+ MESSIN N SCREAMING LIKE 5 YEAR OLD N FIGHTING OVER JOYSTICK TO PLAY THERE FAV GAMEs...

TNX CYAA

vikingboy · Credits: 35286 My Scrapbook My Reading List 18 Books

wow...

i got one more excuse to blast those frigging monsters in doom3 away!!!

and to countless hours of overspeeding in Need for Speed Most Wanted...

Thanx

LEPRECHAUN · Credits: 2108 My Scrapbook

aooo...COOL...so a GAME FREAK.....aww man..am i glad to see u on board...

n well from the time when i 1st read that in newspaper n then saw on net n on t.v....it was kinda blast fo me...i mean showed in a very convencing way that ...OK YAA GAMES DO HELP U TO HEAL the pateints..

well...i mostly play..umm rather played all PS1 games...n play shoting games on PC...n need fo speed underground...

but these days am prety much rusted now..

so spider boy wat else u do aside blowin A--es...in virtual reality..

c ya

vikingboy · Credits: 35286 My Scrapbook My Reading List 18 Books

LEPRECHAUN · Credits: 2108 My Scrapbook

ahhan ahhan viking
well yaa i was expecting the 1st part of gashing n splattering n de gutting there bellies..

but i was'nt expecting puting the on life support..

where as me..umm i was very much in to games..n those were thetimes when my father really n most of thetime my father used to pull my tail for wat am doing n not studying...n thenone day found this study n showed it to him n he with smile..no betta jee that still wont help u to get ur hands freely on joystick..

still i do play games most of thetime scomputer games.
rest i like to CUT N STICH...IN REALITY...so i am doctor n doing job in surgery so...LOOOVVVEEE TO SEE BLOOD N GUTTS IN REALITY..

so comon u must be doing somethin asie games..?
take care see u

vikingboy · Credits: 35286 My Scrapbook My Reading List 18 Books

lol...

when i said "stitch".. i too meant in reality...
i'm doing JRship in casualty in delhi and have to do lots of stitching myself... and put lots of people on life support too

Love the blood man... gettin my hands dirty in it (with protection ofcourse

)

we could start a fragging-shagging-speed-junkies-bone-crushers-blood-lovers-catgut-toting-insane-doctors kind of gang...
what do u say

LEPRECHAUN · Credits: 2108 My Scrapbook

Hi 5 MAN..

U BET WE WILL...:d

N uuurraaoo....the way u mentioned u Love Boold n Gashing ...aakkhh...yaa baby..it is sssooo WARM ""INSIDE" but best part is that...One can ENJOY Cutting n Crushing at its most as at the end reward is cool MOST OF THE TIME THAT IS....Once u stitch them back...SO REALLY WILD FUN..

BUT I WONDER I MENA IS THERE NO ONE ELSE IN THIS WHOLE RXPG WHO IS ALSO A GAME FREAK...

well i dont know may be when this threda beome HOT may be then some one will pop up..

n about U opening ppl n closing n then most ending up on life support.....aww..I KNOW U R KIDDIN NOT ALL OF THEM ENDS UP ON SUPPORT..................................................................
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................................OR DO THEY...

...? LOLZZZZ..

n well like ur siggiy SUITS U...U being in Cutting n Sweing ppl biz..

so...which games r u currently playing these days...tell me..?
so take care see u then

vikingboy · Credits: 35286 My Scrapbook My Reading List 18 Books

Hey..

u have a point there..
there must b more people in rxpg who are gamin freaks..
come on guys...
Life's callin, where are you?

as for me i'm playing
-Serious sam 2
-Need for speed : most wanted

for my fav games see this :

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