Cleaning video equipment
January 28, 2009 § Leave a comment
I recently got a question via the contact form concerning the cleaning of video equipment before entering an OR. As this may be interesting to others, I post the question and my answer here. « Read the rest of this entry »
Head-up display
January 20, 2009 § Leave a comment
Heads
One of the biggest obstacles when it comes to filming surgery is the surgeon’s head. It might be useful to perform the operation (or so I’ve been told), but it constantly gets in the way of the camera. « Read the rest of this entry »
Skin graft videos
January 7, 2009 § 8 Comments
Full-thickness skin graft on the index finger.
Two skin graft videos I’ve made were published on www.oncolex.org today. One of a full-thickness skin graft applied to the index finger after excision of a squamous cell carcinoma. The other of a split-thickness graft applied after removing two tumors from the back of the patient’s knees. « Read the rest of this entry »
Inventory updated
December 18, 2008 § Leave a comment
2008 is soon a wrap, and it’s time to update my list of the different diagnostic and cancer treatment videos I’ve filmed for the www.oncolex.no project over the last three and a half years.
The project is almost completed, but I still have some filming related to liver-, pancreatic-, gall bladder- and bile duct cancer left. This is a list of all the procedures I’ve filmed, so not all videos listed here are published and some will for various reasons never be completed. « Read the rest of this entry »
Total gastrectomy video
December 17, 2008 § 12 Comments
The stomach exposed through the midline incision.
My last video in 2008, this total gastrectomy with Roux-en-Y reconstruction for stomach cancer, was published today on www.oncolex.no. « Read the rest of this entry »
Self-surgery
December 15, 2008 § 1 Comment
Dr. Leonid Rogozov performing an appendectomy on himself.
I always thought the scene in the movie Master and Commander, where Dr. Stephen Maturin performs surgery to remove a bullet on himself, was a bit far-fetched. But it turns out that even in the field of self-surgery, reality surpasses fiction.
As List Universe’s Top 10 list of self-surgeries shows, removing a bullet from your own abdomen is merely an outpatient procedure, compared to what have actually been done over the years.
Thanks to T for the tip!
Inner sights
December 2, 2008 § 11 Comments
A surgeon wielding a big tool (Endo GIA) on Grey's Anatomy. Note the bloody glove.
When you enter an operating room for the first time, you’re probably a bit worried about how you’re going to react to the visual impressions.The only reference most of us have is television. If it’s hospital drama or news footage, the surgery is always only hinted at. They show surgery without actually showing surgery. We get to see some bloody, gloved hands and some skin. The rest is left to Mr. Imagination, and as we know, he needs a reality check. « Read the rest of this entry »
To err is human
November 17, 2008 § 6 Comments
The kind of flexible sponge left inside this patient. Photo: Ole Åsheim, Nordlys.
This week one of the worst cases of retained surgical instruments in Norway was unraveled. A patient saw his five operations for colon cancer in a year turn to six, when it was discovered the surgeon had left behind a 20 cm long flexible sponge. The unique aspect of it however, was the patient’s reaction.
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Esophageal cancer videos
October 27, 2008 § 6 Comments
Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)
Today, three videos I’ve made of diagnosis and treatment of esophageal cancer were published on www.oncolex.no. « Read the rest of this entry »
Triangulation
September 25, 2008 § 3 Comments
Alexis Carrel
The history of surgery is the history of great ideas and inventions. Ideas so outrageous, no one had dared to imagine them, before someone did. Like using a piece of intestine to replace a cancerous oesophagus. Inventions so ingenious in their simplicity, the rest of the surgical world must have gone “why didn’t I think of that”, when they were introduced.
One of the most brilliant inventions is, in my opinion, the triangulation method for suturing blood vessels. « Read the rest of this entry »
The Sterile Eye 