Surgical Video Recording: How I Do It

A number of people have asked how I go about video-recording surgeries ... Beyond having hospital administration on board as well as obtaining appropriate consents from all involved parties, the technical aspects are actually quite straightforward. I have tried all sorts of methods in order to obtain the closest and most vivid images possible. I tried cameras mounted on the surgical headlight which did work... but there was too much motion artifact leading to unusable footage. Even though I…

4/08/2013 1

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Dr. Chang Publishes New Journal Article "Video Recording the Surgeon's Viewpoint Cheaply"

An avid snowboarder, I purchased one of those helmet-mounted video camcorders in order record my athletic feats over a year ago. The one I purchased was called ContourHD  and it can be mounted on the snowboard helmet and set to record by the press of a button. It was at some point boarding down a black diamond trail that I had an epiphany... Why not use this helmet mountable camcorder in order to record surgical procedures in the operating room? And... So I did with a few modifications …

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Wearable Camcorders for Video-Recording Surgeries From the Surgeon's Viewpoint?

An avid snow-boarder, I had the bright idea of using the ContourHD wearable camcorder I purchased to record snow-boarding runs... to instead video-record surgical cases. This wearable type of video-recording has many advantages over traditional camcorders which requires an assistant to shoot the video. First, the angle of a wearable camcorder is from the surgeon's viewpoint and has minimal distraction impact. Having an assistant video-recording over the surgeon's shoulder during a …

11/08/2010 3

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