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CARDIOVASCULAR ANESTHESIA

A Perioperative Echocardiographic Reporting and Recording System

Department of Anaesthesia, St. George Hospital, Kogarah, Australia

Address correspondence to David A. Pybus, FANZCA, Department of Anaesthesia, St George Hospital, Belgrave St., Kogarah, NSW 2217, Australia. Address e-mail to dpybus{at}bigpond.net.au

Advances in video capture, compression, and streaming technology, coupled with improvements in central processing unit design and the inclusion of a database engine in the Windows® operating system, have simplified the task of implementing a digital echocardiographic recording system. I describe an application that uses these technologies and runs on a notebook computer.

IMPLICATIONS: The development of inexpensive digital video transcoders and the incorporation of highly efficient video capture, compression, and streaming technology into the Windows® computer operating system has simplified the task of implementing a high-fidelity, real-time, digital, echocardiographic recording system. An application that uses these technologies and runs on a notebook computer is described.