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S U R G I C A L
V I D E O
Eye in the Sky
P
icture this: The patient is on
the table, the surgical team
ready to go. Your ceiling-
mounted HD camera captures the
wide-angle shot, pans, tilts and
zooms to record all instrumentation,
patient positioning, clinician set-up
— the entire surgical field. When the
assistant is ready and the action
The benefits of capturing
begins in the surgical field, the circuvideo from above.
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lating nurse merely taps a button on
a touchscreen and switches over to
the in-light HD cameras, which can
be zoomed in and out.
There are 4 HD, widescreen monitors in the room — 2 wall-mounted
42-inch screens, and 2 boom-mounted 26-inch screens that can orbit the
surgical field. The surgeon enters,
gloves and gowns and, just as he gets
to work, his headset-mounted cam-
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