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Video Technology to Advance Safety in the Operating Room and Perioperative Environment

University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, yxiao{at}umaryland.edu

Stephen Schimpff, MD

University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

Colin Mackenzie, MD

University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

Ronald Merrell, MD

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

Eileen Entin, PhD

Aptima, Inc., Woburn, Massachusetts

Roger Voigt, MD

University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

Bruce Jarrell

University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

Video is a powerful medium and is underused for patient safety in several areas: education, real-time consultation, process improvement, research, and workflow coordination. We illustrate this point through an overview of uses of video in health care by the authors and others in several institutions. These uses were in the context of team work training, operating room coordination, technical skills of invasive procedures, process improvement, telementoring, and multimedia video records. Also described are several key issues associated with the use of video, such as ethics and legal concerns. Technology advances and new methods will make video an important tool for improving patient safety.

Key Words: critical incidents • team performance • surgical workflow • ergonomics • video technology

Surgical Innovation, Vol. 14, No. 1, 52-61 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1553350607299777


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