Surgeons can now bring consulting physicians into the operating room remotely, using medical-grade videoconferencing equipment from MedPresence. The equipment can be used for teaching purposes, too; surgeons and OR staff can see and instruct students as if they were in the operating room together. A 16' x 4' video wall in the classroom or conference room lets users see the horizontal landscape of the operating room and observe surgery from multiple points of view -- literally looking through the eyes of the surgeon. Images captured by surgical scopes are displayed on high-resolution monitors embedded in the desktop at each learning station.

Here's a video of the equipment in use at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix.