β-Blockade Affects Simulator Scores

Authors: Renelle Pointdujour, MD, Habeeb Ahmad, MD, Margaret Liu, MD, Edward Smith, MD, Douglas Lazzaro, MD.

Publication: Ophthalmology Volume 118, Number 9, September 2011.

Link to publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.04.019

Abstract/Summary

Surgical simulators have been developed in surgical subspecialties such as ophthalmology, otolaryngologic, and laparoscopic gastrointestinal surgery. They have been shown to be objective surgical skill assessment tools. The Eyesi (VR Magic, Mannheim, Germany) surgical simulator (Fig 1, available at http://aaojournal.org) was designed to simulate intraocular surgery in a virtual environment. It has the potential to assess modifiable aspects of tremor, a major concern for microsurgeons.