Plexus Surgical Videos

Welcome to the Plexus Surgical Video Productions YouTube Channel.

Plexus is a coast to coast, start to finish, full service surgical video production and editing company that produces award winning surgical procedural, live event surgical demonstration, and surgical device promotional programs, just to name a few.

Plexus is not only made up of surgical videographers but surgical personnel as well. We know how to get the shots, how to communicate with surgeons and operating room staff, and can anticipate the nuances of surgical procedures like standard videographers and even medical videographers simply cannot.

To put it simply, we think surgery and know what surgeons want to see.

Plexus works with everyone, surgical societies, live event producers, surgical device marketers, surgical education services, cadaveric labs, surgeons, and of course other medical video companies that need surgical expertise for their clients. We have made friends in operating rooms across the country and even internationally, and since we have extensive surgical experience as well as video experience, we are always sensitive to the importance of good patient care throughout the production trail.

Plexus also offers editing-only services for surgical procedures and is handed footage shot by others every now and then. We take pride in the fact that we have never needed a surgeon or a marketer to edit with us, and today with the tools of the internet, we are able to make every video editing experience easy, timely, and cost-saving from a distance. We know the anatomy, the procedures, and surgical nomenclature through every surgical specialty and more.

Here you will find a collection of abbreviated surgical video demo reels of various surgical procedures demonstrating the caliber of our work.

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Approaching a hepatocellular carcinoma on the posterior side of the liver is not just a challenge for a surgeon but for any surgical videographer as well. Although the lateral side of the liver is elevated there is only a sliver of visual access. This means for any videographer that does not use the kind of lighting technology used in this sampling, they would likely have to fight with contrasting shadows and lighting flares from the surgical lights as well.

But here we are able to see every detail of this remarkable surgical procedure. Also noteworthy is the quality of the audio. For many procedures we will use a combination of synchronous audio and voice over taken from an interview session after the procedure. This takes pressure off the surgeon to have to think of everything to say during the surgery and concentrate on the procedure, but it also allows the surgeon later to give an abbreviated version of lengthy procedures so that in editing we can gloss over the steps that many surgeons already know.

The distal femoral extension osteotomy is a procedure that addresses severe crouch gait in adolescent cerebral palsy patients. From a surgical video standpoint it is a lower extremity procedure that is easily shot from the lateral side, here using two cameras on jib arms. And the procedure is much like most osteotomy and bone plate procedures. Care is given to each detail in the procedure, but not excessively to the point where we are telling orthopedic surgeons techniques they already commonly know. For example, why stay looking at ever screw going in, every drill hole being made? So unless there are audio points to be made that support a viewing surgeon's expanding their understanding of the procedure, it's better to push forward.

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Surgical Video Demo

The anterior approach to total hip arthroplasty has come into favor these days and presents a challenge for the videographer. Namely the challenge is in knowing when to capture the adjustments to the traction table and being able to get those shots at lightning speed before they happen. As well, anterior THA uses a small incision and surgeons typically wear helmets double their head size, so visualizing with limited visual access is always the case.

So here you can see, by knowing the procedure and how to get difficult shots, the entire Anterior THA can be shown in its entirety without delay to the procedure.

Also note that we used a laparoscope for the acetabulum shots here which shows all the details in that kind of deep wound.

Temporal Craniotomy for Recurrent Tumor Video

Fibula Osteocutaneous Free Flap Dissection Surgical Video

Total Knee Arthroplasty is a detailed procedure that, for a surgical videographer, demands that they know the procedure so the next shot can be anticipated and captured quickly.

In this demo reel I have cut a longer program into selected edits, passing up whole stages of the procedure at several junctures. The purpose here is not to show the whole procedure but to show how I get the shots, know the camera angle changes needed, and when to zoom close or go for a particular shot. When you search for most total knee videos on the internet you will mostly see one camera used and no zooms, because too often videographers do not know what they are looking at and they don't want to miss anything so they just park the camera and record.

But what is important is what does the surgeon want to see? There are particular details to total knee procedures that must be shown in extreme close up and others in pull-outs, some from a top angle and others from a side angle. This is so important and the operating surgeon does not have the ability to instruct the videographer on this. The surgeon has to pay attention to the patient.

Also I want to draw your attention to the audio quality here. Note that the surgeon us wearing a helmet with a ventilation fan blowing on the inside of that. For most surgical procedures I use a high cardioid microphone on a headset. But headsets translate noise from the fan motors on these helmets. So in this case I devised a means to place the mic inside the helmet but protected it from whooshes of air. You have to admit, the audio is excellent. And instrument noise is minimal.

I must admit that I haven't come across too many laser assisted blepharoplasty procedures in my earlier years as a surgical tech. Most blepharoplasty is performed with smaller traditional instrumentation sets.

In this procedure, again using two cameras on two different kinds of jib arms, we visualize the procedure at the stages after injection is delivered, and I am sure you would agree it is one of the quickest and close to bloodless blepharoplasty procedures around.

Kidney stones have typically been broken up by way of lithotripsy procedures. But here is an example of a laser procedure which is today referred to as "stone dusting" which morcellates the stone into a sand-like state.

Although this is mostly an endoscopic procedure with few outside shots, note the quality of the synchronous audio. The laser machine was quite loud but I was able to deal with this, thanks to the kind of microphone I was using as well as my ability to take out consistent noise in post.

As well, it is not typical that a surgeon always says everything that needs to be said during surgery so we sit him or her down for an interview after the case and go through the procedure from A to Z in present tense as if we are doing the case right now. You don't see the surgeon here in this video, but you do hear his extra comments from that interview session. This makes for a fuller program and does not place pressure on the surgeon about delivering audio during the case. If they give good audio, then great! But if they can't for whatever reason, then the interview session makes up what wasn't said during the case.

Open Heart LVAD Implantation Surgery Editing Demo — In this demo another video crew shot the open heart procedure because we were shooting another set of surgical procedures on the east coast. So this demo stands as an example of editing someone else's footage into a long, complex program. Since as a scrub tech, I had scrubbed in the open heart rooms at the largest heart center on the west coast for years, so open heart is not lost to me.