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V I D E O
M O N I T O R S
ROOM WITH A VIEW Much goes into deciding how
to purchase and position video screens for your ORs.
field. There are darkness issues when you're about 30° from center,
but that shouldn't affect the surgeon, who views the display head on.
If there's a surgeon assistant, he should probably get his own monitor;
you can add a monitor to the anesthesia cart for the anesthesia
provider. If someone else on the scrub team wants to view the
progress of the case, wall-mounted monitors probably provide the
best solution. And, as discussed, wall-mounted monitors are a particularly inexpensive addition to the OR, so you can easily have more than
one.
LED is also making headway. These are the same as LCD except that
the backlight that illuminates the pixels is a group of light-emitting
diodes rather than a fluorescent light. You also get slightly improved offangle viewing because of the display's decentralized backlight distribution.
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