ReviewFrontiers in neurology2019
Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Surgeons Dexterity.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.
- Outcomes following out-of-hours acute appendectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2026Pooled it
- Insomnia-A Systematic Review and Comparison of Medical Resident's Average Off-Call Sleep Times.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Sleep Problems and Workplace Violence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Pooled it
- Impact of 24-hour shifts on interns' gait: A study on sleep deprivation and rest effects.Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2026Article
- A Pilot Study Examining Sleep Deprivation Among Liver Transplant Surgeons. Are Patient Outcomes at Risk?Clinical transplantation · 2025Article
- Timing of Transplant Surgery and Its Impact on Short- and Long-term Outcome After Renal Transplantation.Transplantation direct · 2025Article
- A well-rested scalpel: a proposal for standardized guidelines on surgeon fatigue.Frontiers in health services · 2025Article
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- Enriched environment ameliorates postsurgery sleep deprivation-induced cognitive impairments through the AMPA receptor GluA1 subunit.Brain and behavior · 2023Article
- After-hour elective total knee arthroplasty does not affect clinical outcomes but negatively affects alignment.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2023Article
- Effects of 36 hours of sleep deprivation on military-related tasks: Can ammonium inhalants maintain performance?PloS one · 2023Article
- Acute and chronic sleep deprivation in residents: Cognition and stress biomarkers.Medical education · 2021Article
- Multiple caffeine doses maintain vigilance, attention, complex motor sequence expression, and manual dexterity during 77 hours of total sleep deprivation.Neurobiology of sleep and circadian rhythms · 2020Article
- The impact of tiredness on virtual reality robotic surgical skills.Wideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques · 2020Article
- Does sleep deprivation alter virtual reality-based robotic surgical skills?Wideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques · 2020Article
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Sleep deprivation is an ordinary aspect in the global society and its prevalence is increasing. Chronic and acute sleep deprivation have been linked to diabetes and heart diseases as well as depression and enhanced impulsive behaviors. Surgeons are often exposed to long hour on call and few hours of sleep in the previous days. Nevertheless, few studies have focused their attention on the effects of sleep deprivation on surgeons and more specifically on the effects of sleep deprivation on surgical dexterity, often relying on virtual surgical simulators. A better understanding of the consequences of sleep loss on the key surgical skill of dexterity can shed light on the possible risks associated to a sleepy surgeon. In this paper, the authors aim to provide a comprehensive review of the relationship between sleep deprivation and surgical dexterity.
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