Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 5, 2025
A Spine Robotic-Assisted Navigation System for Pedicle Screw Placement
Published on: May 11, 2020
Ethical and Legal Considerations for Recording in the Operating Room: A Systematic Review
William T Quach1, Kelly L Vittetoe2, Alexander Langerman2
1Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee; Surgical Ethics Program, VUMC Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Nashville, Tennessee.
Introduction:
The integration of high-resolution video into surgical practice has fostered widespread interest in capturing surgical video recordings for the purposes of patient care, medical training, quality improvement, and documentation. The capture, analysis, and storing of such recordings inherently impact operating room (OR) activities and introduce potential harms to patients as well as members of the surgical team, which can be analyzed from both ethical and legal perspectives.
Methods:
Following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, a systematic literature search of PubMed was conducted. The citations of included articles were then reviewed to find any articles not captured by our initial search.
Results:
62 Articles were included in the review (52 from PubMed search and 10 from citation review). Prevalent key issues in the literature at present include privacy, consent, ownership, legal use and discoverability, editing, data security, and recording's impact on the surgical team.
Conclusions:
This review aims to spark proactive discussions of the ethical and legal implications of recording in the OR, which will guide transformation as the medical field adapts to new and innovative technologies without compromising its ideals or patient care.
More Related Videos
13:12Translational Brain Mapping at the University of Rochester Medical Center: Preserving the Mind Through Personalized Brain Mapping
Published on: August 12, 2019
08:38Electroretinogram Recording for Infants and Children under Anesthesia to Achieve Optimal Dark Adaptation and International Standards
Published on: September 3, 2020