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Course: Surgical Instant Replay—A National Video-Based Performance Assessment Toolbox

CME Credits: 1.00

Released: 2023-09-27

Taking inspiration from sports broadcasting, the application of a surgical instant replay is an innovative approach for advancing postoperative performance review and sharing of best practices. Recent advances in professional-grade capture, editing, storage, annotation, and dissemination of operative video have created new opportunities for surgeons to enhance technique (eg, instrument handling, respect for tissue, time, motion) and nontechnical skills (eg, situation awareness, decision-making, leadership). In one application, a video camera aimed at the operating table and lavalier microphone under the surgeon’s gown were linked to a data store in the surgical hallway and the resulting video segments presented to the team postoperatively. When reviewing exposure, technique, and errors from film, the participating teams concluded, “Irrelevant motions by surgeon and assistant within the operative field delay the completion of the operation, may injure the tissues, occur frequently, and are usually unnoticed at the time of the operation.”p237 This futuristic vision of surgical performance enhancement was conducted in the 1960s by surgeons from Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Despite the ubiquity of video for minimally invasive and robotic surgery, sharing recorded operations at surgical conferences, and demonstrated feasibility of surgical video for assessment, there remains substantial variability in the use of operative video for review and improvement across surgical specialties. Opportunities for widespread implementation of video to improve technical and nontechnical performance should be prioritized to enhance patient safety.


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