what can you say about Video Games in the Operating Room

The latest wave of video game technology is doing much more than keeping teenagers entertained … it's preparing doctors for the operating room.
Surgical resident Jeff Henke is playing games … in hopes of becoming a better surgeon.
"This isn't exactly what I pictured when I thought of medical school."
Those control sticks on the Nintendo wii are actually probes … the same kind he'll use in the operating room.
"This does really help. It kind of coordinates your hand movements, gets you prepared to go into the operating room and perform laparoscopic surgery."
Doctors had to make a few adjustments to turn the wii accessories into surgical tools.
"We took the golf club out and actually put this — a laparoscopic probe — on it."
Using these cyber gloves to record and measure hand movements, bioinformatics expert Doctor Kanav Kahol made a discovery … the coordination used to play the games is similar to what's needed in laparoscopic or minimally invasive surgery.

Simulators that train doctors for surgery often cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, but a pilot study at Banner Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix found playing the specially adapted wii, residents skills improved by 50-percent.
"This gives us a much less costly way to train on these fine motor skills that the surgeons employ in surgery."
Co-Developer Doctor Mark Smith says wii has taken training to a whole new level.
"They develop an increased efficiency, less errors, more fluid movement. basically, they're just better."
Jeff knows there's no restart button in real surgery, but for now he's sharpening his skills one game at a time.

Researchers say these computer games could give surgeons a way to improve their skills at home, and could even provide surgeons in third world countries a less expensive way to become more proficient.

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