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generation of medical students has required ‘live’ demonstration of surgical techniques on an actual patient in the OR. But this approach poses some significant problems, as Dr Iain Hennessey explains:
“If you are standing around in the OR you cannot really see an awful lot of what is happening. Sometimes our students get bold and try to edge closer – but not many surgeons like having somebody breathing down the back of their neck. You have also got the additional risk of infection with all those extra bodies in the room. It adds a whole extra dimension of uncertainly and risk to what you are doing.” Traditional teaching of surgery, notes Dr Iain Hennessey is also less than efficient from a resource management point of view: “It is frustrating and inflexible having to hang around, wait for an operative slot and go to theatre to watch that procedure live, and once you are in theatre, there is not a lot actually happening that is directly relevant to the student for much of that time. Really you just want to capture the highlights of a three hour operation and edit them together. Then, by displaying them in a high-resolution format, you can save two hours of that student’s time.” Sony’s ground-breaking networked video solution has transformed the efficiency of clinical teaching at Alder Hey. Streaming live HD video to the screens in each OR lets students view fine details of intricate operating procedures in close-up, without intruding on the surgeon’s personal space. Working with Sony, Alder Hey is also currently exploring the possibilities of streaming live HD video from the OR to students sitting in lecture theatres and teaching rooms.
“Having the Sony screens in theatre has changed the way I teach,” confirms Dr Simon
Kenny. “Now I don’t have to stand over someone’s shoulder, causing an extra infection risk. I can sit in the corner of the room, looking at a High Definition image on the screen. I get a better view of what’s happening, and I’m able to direct better.”
Creating a growing digital archive
As Dr Simon Kenny notes, streaming live video from the OR also offers the hospital the exciting potential to build up a digital archive. “Once we’ve captured the images, recording them gives us the chance to go back and review. It brings cases to life far more than still images can. We now have the power to create an encyclopaedia of surgery in all its forms, available to students and other surgeons and that’s crucial for us when we have a duty to deliver high-quality
outcomes, today and in the future.” “Capturing live video from surgery and putting it up on the Sony screens is hugely beneficial for teaching, where normally you have students hanging around at the side of the OR,” adds Dr Iain Hennessey. “Our challenge in clinical teaching – and in paediatric medicine generally – is creating a proper record of what actually happened in the operating room, with a high quality image that’s easy to store, share and retrieve. It is all very well hearing about it from someone else, but whether you are a student or another surgeon you really want to actually see it.”
“I’m really proud of what’s been achieved between Alder Hey and Sony,” he concludes. “I think it has been a model for how we work with industry partners.”
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