In medicine, visual perception and experience have a significant impact on efficiency and effectiveness, as expertise is based on rapid decision-making and accuracy in executing assigned practical tasks.

Studies using eye-tracking methodology have shown that there are differences in eye movement parameters between an expert physician and a trainee. SR Labs, together with EESOA, is introducing eye tracking to the field of anesthesia and intensive care for the very first time.

70 residents in anesthesia and intensive care (from years 1 to 5) from the University of Catania will be enrolled to participate in the study at the EESOA Simulation Center. Participants will take part in the training course wearing glasses equipped with eye trackers. By immersing themselves in simulations that faithfully reproduce emergency scenarios, they will replicate medical emergencies such as postpartum hemorrhage.

Performance evaluation, recorded by multiple cameras, will be conducted in real-time by trained independent observers using standardized and validated scores. Subsequently, expert psychologists from the Strategic Therapy Center of Arezzo will evaluate the performance through clinical observation of the video recordings.

The EESOA team has created this video as a trailer for this new pioneering frontier of research in the field of medical training.