Tiny Video Camera for Endoscopy
March 17, 2015 | Terry Sharrer
Minimally invasive surgery offers potentially good news for patients and troubling news for conventional hospitals, leading to the observation that any procedure that can be done on an outpatient basis will be done that way. Video assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) and natural orifice trans-luminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) are two examples of minimally invasive techniques. This piece is a commercial website for Medigus Ltd (Omer, Israel) which specializes in minimally invasive surgical tools—among them, the “micro Scout cam,” a 1.2mm (diameter) HD video camera, suitable for VATS and NOTES procedures. Supposedly, this is the world’s smallest video camera. MORE
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