Feasibility of a New Wearable Device to Estimate Acute Stress in Novices During High-fidelity Surgical Simulation

Abstract

Background: Stress associated with learning of a psychomotor task can influence the trainees learning ability. Surgical simulation is a validated training milieu designed to replicate real-life situations, prevent biases and provide objective metrics. However, the complexity of stress mechanisms and the absence of a reliable detection method make stress estimation difficult to quantify and to interpret.

Keywords

• wearable device
• electrodermal activity
• acute stress
• surgical simulation
• stress estimation