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"There is more accurate visualization with high-definition equipment," says Gary Barth, MD, a general surgeon at Hastings Surgical
Center in Hastings, Neb., "and therefore you may be able to diagnose some diseases that you may have missed before."
"The cameras are better than what we had even 10 years ago," notes Srinivasa Gorjala, MD, FACS, medical director of the bariatric program at the Southern Regional Medical Center in Riverdale, Ga. "The cameras were not very sharp. Now, high definition is great. The picture is better in intensity, color and field of magnification. You don't have to guesstimate as much."
The high quality of the latest generation of high-definition video imaging is due in part to improvements in the cable
that carries the signal between the lens and the camera control unit, says Robert Baxt, MD, a hernia repair and abdominal wall reconstruction specialist at the Hospital of Central Connecticut in New
