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01-02-2013 | Letter to the Editor
Psychophysiologic stress reduction in surgery
Authors:
Annika Rieger, Regina Stoll
Published in:
Surgical Endoscopy
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Issue 2/2013
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Excerpt
We read with interest the paper entitled Effects of Intraoperative Breaks on Mental and Somatic Operator Fatigue. This paper describes a randomized clinical trial authored by Engelmann and colleagues, who noted that “work breaks during complex laparoscopic surgery can reduce psychological stress and preserve performance without prolongation of the operation time compared with the traditional work scheme” [
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