Human Factors Issues in Robotic Surgery seminar by Pr Caroline Cao (Wright State University)
Anthony...@csiro.au
Dear EMBS QLD members,
Pr Caroline Cao (Wright State University) is a visiting professor at AEHRC will be presenting a seminar tomorrow:
Human Factors Issues in Robotic Surgery
by Pr. Caroline Cao
http://www.cecs.wright.edu/node/432
1:30-2:30pm, Wednesday 25th of July
Level 5 - UQ Health Sciences Building 901/16
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston
Health care is probably the last remaining unsafe critical system. A large proportion of reported medical errors occur in the hospital operating room (OR), a highly complex sociotechnical environment. From the technological point of view, there is a natural progression from traditional open surgery to minimally invasive surgery to robotic surgery. However, technology is being introduced into the OR faster than surgeons can learn to use them. Surgical errors have been attributed to the unfamiliar instrumentation, increased motoric, perceptual and cognitive demands on the surgeons, as well as the lack of adequate training. Effective technology design requires an understanding of the system constraints of minimally invasive surgery, and the complex interaction between humans and technology in the OR. This talk will describe research activities in the Ergonomics in Remote Environments Laboratory at UWS, which address some of these human factors issues, such as lack of 3D visual feedback, and reduced tactile and force feedback to the surgeon.
Bio:
Caroline G. L. Cao received a Ph.D. in mechanical & industrial engineering from the University of Toronto in 2002. After being the director of the Human Factors Program in the School of Engineering; assistant professor of mechanical engineering and of biomedical engineering; and founding director of the Ergonomics in Remote Environments Laboratory at Tufts University, she is now Professor of Biomedical, Industrial, and Human Factors Engineering, and Professor of Surgery at the medical school, in charge of the Ohio Research Scholar of the Ohio Imaging Research and Innovation Network.
She is the immediate-past chair of the Health Care Technical Group of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Her research is in the area of human factors of medical systems, including the design and evaluation of enabling technology (e.g., robotics, image guidance, haptics) for minimally invasive surgery, training of surgical skills in training simulators, and decision-making and team communication in the operating room.
Dr. Cao is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Career Award.
Regards
Anthony
Anthony Nguyen, PhD
Research Team Leader | The Australian e-Health Research Centre, ICT Centre
Project Leader | Clinical Information Processing and Reporting
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