How can I use video capture on my rotations?

[crh3f]

So, I'm starting my clinical rotations in June, and have just figured out how to use my NR for video capture...what I'm looking for are some ideas about how I can use that feature to learn (or just for fun) on my rotations.

Start brainstorming, everyone!

:)

[Michael Quach]

Hmm... NR70 video capture....

1) Video tape suspected sz activity, and bug your local neurologist about it :)
2) Take still pictures of Chest xrays... works great.
3) Take pics of weird rashes....

[OcellNuri]

You could use the vid capture to show a relative location of a wound or rash or whatever you are working on. Still pictures do not always give a good idea of location. Start at something like a knee or shoulder, and take a vid moving down to the point of treatment. You won't need enough detail to see everything about the point, but it will be enough to remember exactly where on the body it is located... Sound good? :D

[aaronrkelly]

Amercia Goriest Home Videos anyone???

[crh3f]

All good suggestions! (even the America's Goriest...I'll be doing a trauma rotation during 4th year ;)

I was thinking also for "stereotypical" behavior, ie, hand flapping w/ hepatic encepalopthy, if I see a Huntington's patient and their choreoform movements...

[StPhun]

Originally posted by crh3f
So, I'm starting my clinical rotations in June, and have just figured out how to use my NR for video capture...what I'm looking for are some ideas about how I can use that feature to learn (or just for fun) on my rotations.

Start brainstorming, everyone!

:)

I've taken tons of pictures w/ my NR and then NX and posted alot of 'em on my web site for your viewing pleasure. I find that certain things, like taking movies of Angios and CT-scans (pagedown on the PACS to get a 'CT movie') is a huge hit on rounds - Ooooh and Aaaahhs from students, residents and atttendings. Actually makes for better health care - sometimes a picture sez it all.

Also intra-op photos are great if the scrub nurses/attendings let you. Very gory for the un-initiated. Again show and tell is a huge hit. Taking photos of photos that are in the chart, for example endoscopic pics, works well, as well as pics of EKG changes.

And don't forget to take pictures of the housestaff and nurses and e-mail it to them!

BUT be careful not to take ANY identifying information ie name, dob, pt's face etc. because even though most surgical consents contain a photographic/video waiver we still have to deal w/ HIPPO, I mean HIPPA, regulations.

Have fun with your point-of-care share-hardware!

[BaconGrease]

gait disturbances

[crh3f]

Yeah, I'd already thought about the HIPAA regs and the fact that I'd have to make sure that faces weren't in anything.

[Michael Quach]

Echocardiograms show up quite well, too.

If you're in the NICU, parents love it when you take pictures of them and their baby, and wirelessly email it to them.

[Unregistered]

Can't forget good ol HIPPA. I would also recommend checking with the Risk Management department of the facility you will be in to see what the policy is on photographing/video capturing even without identifying content.

Please also remember that just because a patient's face is not in the picture, he/she still may not want photographs in situations such as the rash that was mentioned. Does your hospital include permission to photograph in the general admissions consent or only in the surgical consent?

Photos and videos may be discoverable if litigation occurs. If you become well known for frequently taking images then this might be remembered down the road.

CYA is a good thing :).

[mormai]

You can take an intra oral pathologys lesions fotos using 2x focus

[StPhun]

Originally posted by Unregistered
If you become well known for frequently taking images then this might be remembered down the road.

I certainly hope so because the images I take with my NX are publication quality and some are being submitted to professional journals!

[crh3f]

Originally posted by mormai
You can take an intra oral pathologys lesions fotos using 2x focus

Good thinking, but I've got an NR, not an NZ ;)

NR = "no resolution" :D