El Hospital Provincial de Castellón held the first day of ophthalmological surgery live.
Castellon, July 2012.- the Institute ophthalmologic of the Consortium hospital Provincial de Castellón held on June 22, the first day of live surgery that from their own operating rooms of the Center have broadcast six interventions carried out by the service personnel and that they have been followed by the rest of the service personnel from the Media Center classroom.
The aim of the initiative is to show health personnel in ophthalmology surgical interventions of different areas such as cornea, strabismus, glaucoma, eyelid, cataract and retinal.
The teaching of ophthalmological surgery is very complex and requires many interventions see ”, emphasizes Dr. Miguel Esteban, head of the service, for who the operating room is a very limited space, by what it has decided to install an audiovisual system that allows you to continue these operations from anywhere.
Esteban ha recordado que el Consorcio ha sido acreditado recientemente por el Ministerio de Sanidad para la formación de médicos internos residentes (MIR) en la especialidad de Oftalmología. Therefore, this system will be very useful to contribute to the training of future specialists.
Last year the specialists in ophthalmology conducted a total of 3,111 surgical interventions, an increase of 9.2 per cent from those in the previous year.
