TY - JOUR
AU1 - Hill, Jonathan
AB -  INSIDE CERTIFICATION Jonathan Hill lthough equipment-related calls come into the clinical engineering department throughout the day (and night), operating room (OR) calls are always a top priority. Calls from the OR run the gamut from issues with anesthesia machines, electrosurgical units, surgical lights, and blood warmers to surgical video carts. These carts are set up for various surgery categories and allow surgeons to view surgical sites during minimally invasive procedures, which minimize healing time for patients. As helpful as they are in certain situations, surgical video carts can be challenging when connectivity issues arise. The basic video cart is configured with a monitor for displaying the image, a camera controller to process the image from the camera head, a light source to provide illumination of the surgical site, and a video image printer for pictures. All of these devices have inputs and outputs that can affect the outcome of the video image on the monitor. The basic set up, as it applies to the majority of systems, includes a video chain that starts with a camera head that is hooked to a rigid scope and ends with the device that displays or prints the image. When troubleshooting these 
TI - Surgical Video Carts
JF - Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology
DO - 10.2345/0899-8205-43.2.119
DA - 2009-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/allen-press/surgical-video-carts-0qZgZuTFic
SP - 119
EP - 120
VL - 43
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -