The ophthalmic video services at Iowa are among the best in the country.
Video is viewed and recorded daily from numerous sources.
Five surgical microscopes and four clinical slitlamps are equipped with color video cameras, color monitors, and S-VHS VCRs. A broadcast quality camcorder is located in the video office for patient full face and close up external video and also for video production work. The Braley Auditorium is equipped with a closed circuit video system allowing transparencies and opaque materials to be displayed, ophthalmic pathology microscope slides to be seen, videotapes shown, and computer program presentations utilized, all through a multisync video projector with a 10 diagonal screen. This CCTV system is used during daily morning conference, weekly fluourescein and pathology conferences, and for monthly clinical conferences. One of the two video indirect portable systems has a video printer allowing the Pediatric service to take photographs of infants and children without using a hand-held fundus camera.