Does open surgery increase physical workload compared to robot-assisted surgery and nonsurgical tasks in surgeons?
Open surgery imposes a higher physical workload on surgeons compared to robot-assisted surgery and nonsurgical tasks, potentially increasing the risk of musculoskeletal disorders.
The physical workload of surgeons in open surgery, which exceeded the proposed action levels, was higher than that in RAS and that in nonsurgical tasks. Demands of increased operation time may result in higher physical workload for open surgeons, which poses an increased risk of MSDs. Risk-reducing measures are, therefore, needed.
Fan et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
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