New Movie Trailer for Fauquier ENT YouTube

It has been an amazing experience with how successful our videos have been on YouTube. We now have 60+ different videos of ENT procedures that has been viewed over 247 million times since 2007. We also now have over 12,300 subscribers to our video channel.

To celebrate, a movie trailer of sorts has been created to introduce new viewers to the sort of videos they will see and will continue to see from us.

Check it out! And... if you haven't yet subscribed to our video channel, please do so!

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Surgical Video Recording: How I Do It

A number of people have asked how I go about video-recording surgeries... Beyond having hospital administration on board as well as obtaining appropriate consents from all involved parties, the technical aspects are actually quite straightforward.

I have tried all sorts of methods in order to obtain the closest and most vivid images possible. I tried cameras mounted on the surgical headlight which did work... but there was too much motion artifact leading to unusable footage. Even though I thought my head was absolutely still, it really was not.

What I found worked best is using the video tower used for sinus surgery in my hospital with the camera-head attached to the overhead light-handle. Thankfully, my hospital uses HD equipment with 3CCD camera-head, so the video footage is spectacular. And because the camera-head is mounted on a light-handle, the footage obtained is absolutely still.

The footage is recorded digitally directly onto a hard drive which I than transfer to a USB thumb drive.

Along with this setup, I have a roaming individual with a hand-held camcorder to obtain different angled shots to add variety to the final movie.

So that's how I now do it!

The specific video equipment I use is a Conmed Linvatec HD System... however any sinus surgery video equipment should work even if analog.

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daVinci Surgical Robot Makes Paper Airplane... Yawn!

A blog reader of mine informed me about this YouTube video of a surgeon, Dr. James Porter, making a paper airplane using a daVinci surgical robot.

For those unawares, the daVinci robot is used to assist the surgeon in "difficult-to-reach" procedures. It is used in the fields of urology, ENT, gynecology, and general surgery.

There is much debate whether the daVinci robot really is worth it.

This paper airplane video is a perfect example of why it is NOT worth the $1.3 million price tag.

Why?

Because I can make a paper airplane with my own two hands that is just as good as the one made by the robot, even if it is smaller than a penny... and I can do it faster and WAY more cheaply.

I should also point out that the paper airplane made by the robot couldn't even fly...

NOW... what would have been a much more impressive video and would highlight specifically what the daVinci robot can do that a human would not have been able to do is to make a paper airplane INSIDE of a wine bottle.

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Fauquier ENT Reaches 5 Million Web Visits

It is with some amazement that a certain milestone was reached this past week...

Fauquier ENT's online presence received over 5,000,000 web visits since first coming into existence in 2004. This number includes practice website and blog.

There has been exponential growth year over year with daily web visits now averaging close to 8,000 hits per day with some occasional peak days exceeding 10,000 views.

Our YouTube channel has done even better on its own with over a QUARTER BILLION VIEWS since we first established it in 2007. As of today, our videos have collectively received over 228 million views, averaging 45,000 views per day.

Thanks for all the online support!

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YouTube Ranks Fauquier ENT as Most Viewed for Medical Videos

I was informed that our practice's YouTube channel has been ranked as one of the most viewed channels related to medicine in the world!

As of Oct 6, 2011, our channel which contains 52 videos has received 198,064,840 views. We currently average over 500,000 views a day!

We far surpass other more "prestigious" medical organizations with a YouTube channel.

Mayo Clinic Channel Channel
4,936,943 views

University of Maryland Medical Center Channel

2,047,260 views

CDC Channel 

4,173,563 views

Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard) Channel 

33,994 views

Children's Medical Center Channel 

318,688 views

Duke Medical Center Channel 

1,571,694 views

Medical University of South Carolina Channel 

699,002 views

UVA Health System Channel 

29,922 views

Stanford Medical Center Channel 

132,303 views

British Medical Journal Channel 

216,331 views

Penn State Hershey Medical Center Channel 

46,688 views

Scripps Health – San Diego Channel 

212,848 views

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