Watching the HHNW Operation Room team perform their work LIVE acts as nothing short than scientifically astounding. And, yes, as fascinating as it is inside the OR, it's almost just as amazing outside of it. How so? The team wired a live feed to a TV monitor down the hallway from the OR with headcam footage from Drs. Lee Siwek and Neil Worrall that provides a clear, introspective look at the heart and the surgery.
In turn, the live action on screen serves a higher purpose than merely raw surgical action: Rwandan doctors and nurses sit and watch the action while HHNW physicians and nurses explain what's happening on screen. The whole setup—headcam to monitor to dialog—proves to be one of the many key training opportunities for the Rwandan staff at King Faisal Hospital.
Following surgery on Friday, the two surgeons—Siwek and Worrall—in addition to the two cardiologists on the trip, Drs. Goldberg and Williams, led a PowerPoint seminar on their respective skill sets for the inquiring minds of Rwandan physicians and medical students.
From Operating Room to the classroom, it's obvious that the external training aspect is central to the principle of this mission.—Johnny Stifter
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