Great Ormond Street Hospital

This podcast features Professor Martin Elliott, who practices cardiothoracic surgery on children at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital. His team needed to capture videos of challenging surgical procedures so to share with other professionals and students. He had been recording them on tape, but wanted to record them directly as digital files. He also needed to enable the team’s surgeons to edit the raw video into labeled, professional-quality clips. Finally, he needed powerful tools for processing and viewing CT and MRI images for planning surgeries. Dr. Elliott and his team now use OsiriX, a powerful Mac-based medical image viewer, to process radiological files into 3D images for surgical planning. He and his colleagues use iMac, MacBook and Mac Pro systems to capture videos of surgical procedures, storing them on an Apple Xserve. Surgeons bring up video on their Mac and use Final Cut Studio for editing and color correction, adding motion graphics and text to make their projects suitable for sharing with families and with other professionals. With Apple technology it is now possible to document complex procedures that correct congenital heart defects so surgical centers around the world can benefit from their research, discoveries and techniques.