How Crescent Med will help make surgery more accessible
Demand for surgical populations has never been greater, partially due to rising and ageing populations. It is estimated that 5 billion people worldwide are without proper access to surgical care with an increase of 140 million surgeries needed by 2030. To achieve this, the Lancet Global Surgery estimated 290 Billion Euros will have to be invested in healthcare [1].
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the problem and has clearly demonstrated the lack of healthcare professionals. As the cases of COVID patients increase and fill hospitals, elective surgical procedures are delayed. On the educative end, students are redeployed and have access to fewer surgical resources [2]. The restrictions on the number of employees allowed in operating theatres have also ‘resulted in reduced opportunities for junior trainees’ [2].
The problem is clearly summarized in this video by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
A Digital Solution
To fix a part of this issue, hard work must be performed to increase the number of surgeons and the availability of surgical know-how. This means increasing the accessibility, scalability, affordability and productivity of surgical education and broadening the reach of current surgeons.
In this massive undertaking, our mission as Crescent Tech is to help tackle this problem by accelerating the adoption of digital communication within healthcare and make surgical knowledge accessible quickly, to anyone, anywhere. This mission has led us to develop our medical headcam and live streaming solution: the Crescent Vision Live.
Aimed at increasing the accessibility of digital and remote education, our live streaming solution makes sharing high-grade surgical footage easy for both the surgeon and the audience, as we preserve the current workflows of the surgeon while providing more clear and easy to follow footage for the audience.
A surgeon, for example, won’t need to be taught how to use specific software, go out of their way and spend time installing, or learn how to use our headcam.
Additionally, our focus on clear high-definition footage means no information will be lost due to bad positioning or framing of the footage. This makes it more effective than other similar solutions, from which output may sometimes be inadequate for the audience’s clear understanding.
Our headcam is good for one to many demonstrations, such as a surgeon or educator to a class, or one-to-one demonstrations, such as a surgeon consulting another surgeon on their surgery elsewhere.
This allows surgical education to ignore geographic boundaries and restrictions in the hospital due to COVID, allowing anyone anywhere to access the knowledge. Combined, this means surgeons can teach more students more effectively, safely and efficiently.
By making surgical footage more accessible we allow surgical education to be scalable and reach larger audiences, anywhere in the world.
With this, the education of new surgeons can happen quicker and more people can have access to high quality first-person surgical video.