YouTube Surgery: Total Hip Replacement
May 12th, 2009 § 5 Comments
My father-in-law had a total hip replacement a few weeks ago. I’m glad he didn’t watch this video before his surgery. This is why I usually remove all OR sound from my videos and have my pictures show actual surgery and not just a big red blur with metal instruments in it…
This game, on the other hand, was very educating.
YouTube Surgery: Carotid Endarterectomy
May 1st, 2009 § 2 Comments
This is a video of a carotid endarterectomy, the removal of plaque from the carotid artery to prevent stroke. « Read the rest of this entry »
YouTube Surgery: How To Pluck a Mass Out of Someone’s Neck
April 26th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
This is a very informative video on how a neck mass excision is performed, made and uploaded by Dr. Kevin Soh, an ENT surgeon from Singapore.
Combining photos, graphics and video he creates a deeper understanding of a procedure that may seem pretty straight forward. He even puts in a little “poetry” in the captions:
Surgery is like painting – I use fine gentle strokes
The video footage is recorded through an operation microscope, which must be done solely to get good pictures, as an operation like this would not normally include a microscope. The footage is a bit dark and I think a voice over could have added more to this than the music, but all in all I like this video a lot.
Laparoscopic Pancreas Resection
April 22nd, 2009 § Leave a Comment
Cutting through the serosa of the pancreas.
Two videos I’ve made of surgery for pancreatic cancer was published on www.oncolex.no last week. The first one is a laparoscopic resection of the tail of pancreas. As always, the voice overs are in Norwegian, so I publish a short summary in English here. « Read the rest of this entry »
“10 Gory Surgeries” Reviewed Part 1/2
April 6th, 2009 § 5 Comments
WIRED Science has put up an article with “10 Gory Surgical Triumphs on YouTube”. Although their approach is somewhat sensasionalist, the idea to collect surgical videos available on YouTube is good. It has actually inspired me to start a series of posts where I’ll pick a surgical video from YouTube every week and review it.
What better then, than to start with the videos WIRED picked? Are they good videos that communicate something of use, or are they just, as WIRED calls them, “gory”?
Here are my reviews of the first five videos. « Read the rest of this entry »
ERCP
March 27th, 2009 § 1 Comment
A gastroenterologist watching the monitors during an ERCP.
A video I’ve made of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) was published on www.oncolex.no yesterday. This is an endoscopic procedure used both for diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic-, gallbladder- and bile duct cancer. I provide a brief summary of the video here, as the voice overs are in Norwegian. « Read the rest of this entry »
Laparoscopic liver resection
March 25th, 2009 § 1 Comment
An endoscopic ultrasound probe is used to map the blood vessels.
A video I’ve made of a laparoscopic liver resection was published on www.oncolex.no last week. As the voice overs are in Norwegian, I here provide a brief summary in English. « Read the rest of this entry »
Surgical muzak
March 24th, 2009 § 2 Comments
This is a randomly picked video from the search result for “surgery” on YouTube. A nice enough run-through of a gastric bypass, but what’s with the cheesy background music? Did the guy record his voice overs in an hotel elevator? « Read the rest of this entry »
Historical medical films on YouTube
February 25th, 2009 § 3 Comments
The Wellcome Library, which catalogues books, manuscripts, archives, films and pictures on the history of medicine, has started to make their historical medical films available on YouTube.
Over 100 hours of historical films and video is going to be digitized. As of now, 25 videos have been published, the subject matter ranging from public health information on obesity in children to descriptions of surgical procedures, like the removal of a tuberculoma of the brain, shown above.
A great source of both medical history and the history of visual communication in medicine!
Thanks to Thomas for the tip.
Interpath for iPhone
January 22nd, 2009 § 1 Comment
This is a video I’ve made of an iPhone application developed at the Institute for Medical Informatics at the Oslo University Hospital (where I work). It’s a telepathology tool, making it possible for a pathologist to access scanned microscope slides on a server from his or her iPhone. « Read the rest of this entry »
