NYU Medical Center's Cardiac Surgeons Produce World's First Live High Definition Cardiac Surgery Teleconference
Live cardiac surgery transmitted live to the 7th Annual "Cardiothoracic Techniques & Technologies" meeting in New Orleans
meeting. The conference attendees viewed transmitted images of unprecedented quality made possible by HDTV and advanced satellite technology. Throughout the surgery, Dr. Colvin conversed with the meeting's moderator.
According to David Ayer, Teledyne's Communication Project Leader, " Specially designed video compressors were used that offer lossless signal compression with very low latency. This production demonstrated the feasibility of satellite transmission of high definition teleconferencing with audio and video digital delay less than 0.5 second and with images containing 1 to 3 megapixels suitable for large screen presentation."
A crew consisting of engineers, camera and audio technicians, surgery fellows, and nurses made the event possible under the joint direction of Eugene Grossi, MD, Director of the Cardiac Surgical Research Laboratory and Allan Katz, President of VTS Inc. and Chief Engineer for Dr. Colvin. Robert Dippel, Director of Operations for Teledyne, also provided technical direction.
The HDTV teleconference is the first of many to come for NYU's Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery. As an internationally recognized teaching institution, similar broadcasts are now being planned for cardiovascular surgery meetings being held in China and Montana.
Live cardiac surgery transmitted live to the 7th Annual "Cardiothoracic Techniques & Technologies" meeting in New Orleans
| (New York, NY, February 14, 2001) NYU Medical Center's Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Teledyne Electronic Technologies, Inc. announced today the production of the world's first live high definition cardiac surgery teleconference to the 7th Annual "Cardiothoracic Techniques & Technologies" meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. On Friday, January 26th Stephen B. Colvin, MD, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at NYU performed valve repair surgery on a 40 year-old female as the surgery was being telecast live from the operating room to approximately 800 surgeons at the CTT |
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According to David Ayer, Teledyne's Communication Project Leader, " Specially designed video compressors were used that offer lossless signal compression with very low latency. This production demonstrated the feasibility of satellite transmission of high definition teleconferencing with audio and video digital delay less than 0.5 second and with images containing 1 to 3 megapixels suitable for large screen presentation."
A crew consisting of engineers, camera and audio technicians, surgery fellows, and nurses made the event possible under the joint direction of Eugene Grossi, MD, Director of the Cardiac Surgical Research Laboratory and Allan Katz, President of VTS Inc. and Chief Engineer for Dr. Colvin. Robert Dippel, Director of Operations for Teledyne, also provided technical direction.
The HDTV teleconference is the first of many to come for NYU's Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery. As an internationally recognized teaching institution, similar broadcasts are now being planned for cardiovascular surgery meetings being held in China and Montana.