A tele-surgery pilot brings state of the art surgery into battlefields forefront

The technology includes a high-resolution camera over the operating table to allow the remote physician to look down into the surgery field. It also provided a TV screen capability where the image of the surgery field was projected on the television and the remote physician was able to draw with a marker pen and say “You see this point right here?” And the local physician was able to say “Yes, I see that.” “Okay, cut here,” or do this. We have [a lot of] equipment, high-bandwidth requirements to move sharp, crisp images of the surgical field.