YouTube Surgery: Carotid Endarterectomy
May 1, 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 26, 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 22, 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.org last week. The first one is a laparoscopic resection of the tail of pancreas. « Read the rest of this entry »
“10 Gory Surgeries” Reviewed Part 1/2
April 6, 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 »
Laparoscopic liver resection
March 25, 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. « Read the rest of this entry »
Surgical muzak
March 24, 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 »
SurgeXperiences 219
March 15, 2009 § 6 Comments
The hypophysis cerebri in position. Shown in sagittal section. Click to enlarge.
Welcome to edition 219 of SurgeXperiences, the one and only blog carnival dedicated to surgery! I suggested “anatomy” as the theme for this edition, and anatomy you’ll get. Gray’s Anatomy.
Now there’s a lot of really impressing and advanced medical illustrations available to students of anatomy and medicine today. But nothing appeals to me like the simple and effective lithographs that accompanied the early editions of the tome of anatomical knowledge that is Gray’s Anatomy. The 1918 edition is in the public domain, and is available in its entirety online. All illustrations here, relating to the submitted posts, are taken from this edition. So once again I present you with a very visual edition. Hope you enjoy it! « Read the rest of this entry »
Anatomy Detective
March 6, 2009 § 4 Comments
The pebbed glass door panel is lettered in flaked black paint: “Øystein Horgmo…Anatomical Investigations”. It is a reasonably shabby door at the end of a shabby corridor in the sort of building that was new about the year all-tile bathroom became the basis of civilization. The door is locked, but next to it is another door with the same legend which is not locked. Come on in – there’s nobody in here but me and a few volumes of Sobotta and Gray’s. « Read the rest of this entry »
Separate fates
February 26, 2009 § 3 Comments
Peter and Nelly Block with their twin daughters. Photo: Keith Weller © Johns Hopkins Magazine.
Just read a brilliant article from a 2005 issue of the Johns Hopkins Magazine, describing an operation to separate two conjoined twins.
Full of suspense and surgical insight, it is one of the most well written descriptions of surgery I’ve ever read. It had me on the edge of my seat and, being a father myself, it almost moved me to tears.
It’s a detailed deconstruction of the difficult steps in a 30 hour long operation to separate the two 10 month old twin girls. Like no other piece I’ve read, it puts across an understanding of the important tasks of all the professions in the surgical team, from the scrub tech to the anesthesiologist. Read it!
Thanks to T for the tip.
Inoperable
February 18, 2009 § 2 Comments
Organs removed in the Whipple procedure.
A post over at IntraopOrate reminded me of a belief I held before knowing much about surgery. Reading it also coincided with an operation I was filming this week, in which the patient’s pancreatic tumor turned out to be inoperable. « Read the rest of this entry »
The Sterile Eye 