WG Wilko Grolman

Telemedicine · video archive

Operations, carried live

A surgical technique described in a journal is not a surgical technique you have watched.

Public productions from the studio: international otology broadcasts linking operating rooms, moderators and viewers across countries, and one stereoscopic experiment in whether depth teaches surgery better than a flat picture. All of them free to watch, which was the point of building the thing.

2006
Broadcasting since
The studio’s first year
20yr
Years of live surgical education
Unbroken
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Cost to the viewer
Public, free, and free of tracking
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Productions

Each opens on the studio’s own channel. Nothing is embedded here: a video player would load third-party tracking into this site, and this site loads nothing from anywhere else.

Live broadcast · 17 May 2022

LION Live Ear Surgery — day one

International otology broadcast linking operating rooms, moderators and viewers across countries. Surgery, commentary and questions all moving live, in both directions, for a full working day.

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Live broadcast · 18 May 2022

LION Live Ear Surgery — day two

The second day of the same broadcast. Two consecutive days is the hard part: everything that held on day one has to hold again, with a different theatre list and a different audience.

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Stereoscopic production · Archive

3D stapedotomy, side-by-side

A stereoscopic side-by-side production, made to find out whether spatial video could teach ear surgery better than a flat image. Stapes surgery is millimetre work; depth is not decoration in it.

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Three formats

LION Live Surgery

International otology broadcasts linking operating rooms, moderators and viewers across countries.

Multi-theatre · multi-country

LION–ESS

Public online educational formats built around international endoscopic and specialist collaboration.

Compact online format

3D / SBS

A historical stereoscopic side-by-side surgical production, experimenting with spatial medical video.

Archive experiment
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What a live production takes

There is no second take. Cameras in theatre, microscope and endoscope feeds, theatre audio, a surgeon narrating while operating, and questions from the audience arriving back in the room — all of it crossing a hospital network built for records rather than media, which nobody will let you reconfigure on the day.