ABSTRACT
This chapter is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation and describes how the system works; it has been used in the operating room studies. Researchers at the University of Virginia are studying human performance in the operating room in an effort to understand the factors that lead to or inhibit patient safety in the environment. Researchers have begun to study team performance in the operating room, most often focusing on anaesthesiology. The chapter describes a hardware/software system called Remote Analysis of Team Environments (RATE) that was developed to integrate data collection, processing and analysis for monitoring and training team performance. RATE was used to help train surgeons on their team communication and coordination skills. The RATE event-marking software will then ‘count up’ from the start time; the counting up time remains approximately in sync with the counting up time of the laparoscopic view.
