Surgeon´s Perspective

Purpose and goal

In order to improve patient safety in surgical care, we need to develop the clinical working routines and knowledge among healthcare professionals and medical researchers. In this project, we developed a camera system for recording 3D video from surgeries. It increased understanding between surgeons and aftercare professionals and gained acceptance that new technology and collected data is valuable. In the long term, the video material can lead to improved education and research, and the development of surgical and medical technologies that require large amounts of data.

Expected results and effects

We developed a prototype for a camera system with 7 cameras filming heart operations in 3D. The video streams are compressed and stored in a cloud service and visualized in an interactive user interface. This led to changed working routines at Skåne´s University Hospital and increased understanding between surgeons and aftercare professionals as well as knowledge transfer between cardiac surgeons and cardiologists. We expect that the video material will improve medical research and education, patient outcomes, and lead to improved surgical techniques and technologies.

Planned approach and implementation

The project had 14 partners with expertise in medicine, video, technology, law and finance. Skåne´s University Hospital is the end-user and project manager. To coordinate, we had a visitor system at the hospital where partners came for system integration and to participate in filming during surgery. Our objective to involve other Swedish hospitals in the data collection failed. Instead, we established contact with international hospitals and are convinced that Swedish hospitals will take an interest when we have strong evidence of improved results.