Video Tower
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A wheeled cart with shelves that holds the video equipment for scope surgery, with one or more flat screen monitors on top. The shelves usually hold the camera control unit, the light source, the insufflationin-suh-FLAY-shunBlowing a gas into a body cavity, such as carbon dioxide into the abdomen during laparoscopic surgery.Full entry or fluid pump and a recorder or printer, all plugged into the cart's own power strip.
On the table
What it does and the lengths it comes in.
What it’s for
Brought in for any scope case (laparoscopylap-uh-ROS-kuh-peeSurgery or an exam done through small cuts in the belly, using a thin, lighted tube with a camera.lapar/o abdomen-scopy looking with an instrumentFull entry , arthroscopy, hysteroscopy, endoscopicen-doh-SKOP-ikDone with an endoscope, a thin tube with a light and camera passed into the body.endo- within-scopic viewingFull entry harvests) so the surgeon can watch the camera picture on the monitor. It lets the whole video system move safely from room to room and is placed where the surgeon can see the screen, for example at the foot of the bed. Integrated operating rooms build the same units into ceiling booms instead of a cart.
Lengths and variants
Every maker sells its own tower (for example Stryker, Karl Storz, Olympus, Arthrex). What sits on the shelves depends on the specialty: an insufflationin-suh-FLAY-shunBlowing a gas into a body cavity, such as carbon dioxide into the abdomen during laparoscopic surgery.Full entry for laparoscopylap-uh-ROS-kuh-peeSurgery or an exam done through small cuts in the belly, using a thin, lighted tube with a camera.lapar/o abdomen-scopy looking with an instrumentFull entry , a fluid pump for arthroscopy.
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- Fuller JK. Surgical Technology: Principles and Practice. 8th ed. Chapter 20 (Minimally Invasive Surgery), p. 439-440
- Fuller JK. Surgical Technology: Principles and Practice. 8th ed. Chapter 13, Fig. 13.2, p. 258
- somatechnology.com
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