Microsurgery training benefits from use of smallest television camera

As a surgeon performed a critical operation recently, a group of reporters, seated in a lounge two floors above the operating floor, watched the operation. An overall view of the room was provided on one television screen but this was not a typical closed-circuit TV demonstration. Two other large screen monitors showed what the surgeon himself saw through the operation microscope as he performed delicate surgery inside the patient's middle ear. (The operation is known as a stapedectomy.) As he worked, he explained every move, answering questions through a two-way microphone hookup, just as he might to a class of doctors.