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LOOKING AHEAD Some surgeons prefer HD views
to what they see through loupes during open surgery.
1080p HD monitors,
represents one of
those steps. The displays are said to be
amazingly detailed
and truly lifelike. Are
they needed in today's
ORs? Perhaps not yet,
but it's an exciting
development in surgi-
cal imaging's inexorable evolution.
• OR integration. A critical part of imaging advances involves
integrated audio-video systems with wireless routers and other
enhancements that streamline the way video is captured, filed and
shared. The ability to save images is extremely valuable to both surgeons and facilities with electronic medical records, but storage and
organization issues are immense. One of the challenges is finding critical images that may be buried in hours upon hours of video, or archiving hard-drive-filling video of extended cases.
Video monitors can now receive and display multiple images simultaneously, which is ergonomically friendly for surgeons and a spacesaving plus in smaller ORs where using 1 less monitor would free up
valuable real estate.
Perhaps you're used to spending up to an hour of frustrating time
trying to link imaging carts together in order to get images properly
routed to monitors. Invariably, they don't appear because cables are
hooked up incorrectly.
Having a room that's integrated like a television studio solves interconnectivity issues. You generate images simply by plugging in
laparoscopic cameras and routing images to anywhere in the suite or
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