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era comes to life. The surgeon instructs the circulator to feed the
headset camera to the main 42-inch monitor, and to a 26-inch monitor
in the anesthesiologist's view. The other 2 monitors display the
patient's hemodynamics and other vitals.
Whatever the main monitor shows is recorded to a file that can be
quickly burned to DVD post-op. The surgeon, who wears a microphone, tells the circulator when he wants ceiling, boom, light or headset views. Everyone in the OR can follow the case — open or minimally invasive — and anticipate the surgeon's needs before he ever
voices a command.
That's how it works every day in 5 of the ORs at Mount Sinai
Medical Center in Miami Beach, Fla., for general, spine and minimally
invasive cardiac surgeries (MICS).
We hold symposia bi-weekly for 6 to 12 surgeons; let other facilities'
surgical teams observe from conference rooms or mobile carts with
HD, flat-panel monitors; burn DVDs on the fly; and can broadcast to
every continent. Here are some insights for exploring your unobtrusive video-capture options.
Connect the dots
When you start shopping, be sure to ask potential vendors about how
their equipment will work with your existing puzzle pieces. We went
with a system that handles feeds for more than 60 different imaging
sources. From a touchscreen, the circulating nurse can retrieve
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