Improving radiology in surgery.
The time has come to reevaluate the use of films of substandard quality obtained from outdated radiography equipment. The authors recommend that surgical subspecialists, orthopedic surgeons, emergency room physicians, gastroenterologists, or whoever employs radiology in the operating room ensure that technological progress in radiology be transferred to the surgical area. The mobile C-arm image amplifier with television fluoroscopy and single-image storage device should be considered for orthopedic surgery and ER rooms. More sophisticated equipment is required for operative cholangiography and operative angiography.
D003626:Data Display; D013502:General Surgery; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement / Q000295:instrumentation; D011859:Radiography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods