Digital camera documentation system for facial nerve outcome assessment
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Published on: January 3, 2011
D M Barrs1, T Fukushima, J T McElveen
1Carolina Ear and Hearing Clinic, 3404 Wake Forest Road, Suite 303, Raleigh, NC 27609, U.S.A.
Objective:
To describe the use of a digital camera to document facial nerve function after skull base surgery.
Setting:
Patients undergoing skull base surgery at a tertiary care otologic and neurotologic clinic were used in the study.
Interventions:
None.
Results:
A digital camera system provided still images and a video strip lasting less than a minute to document facial nerve motion.
Conclusions:
An inexpensive digital camera system can be used to capture still and moving images of facial nerve function on a floppy disk. The images can then be transferred to compact disks for storage of many patient files. Such a system allows documentation for research, exchange of data between offices, and patient education, and it can be used for medical-legal purposes among other uses.
