The Critical View of Safety (CVS) project aims to enhance the understanding and application of safety protocols by capturing images and sending them to a panel of experts for validation. This process allows for the study of validated images to improve knowledge and practices related to CVS. The project is highly versatile, enabling users to capture and grade images from anywhere using just a smartphone and wifi. Additionally, the methodology is generalizable and can be applied to various fields such as gynecology, orthopedics, neurosurgery, interpretation of fetal heart tones, and endoscopic grading systems like Barrett's esophagus.
How It Works
- The application works with any accepted medical image protocol that has a standard grading scale. The critical view of safety for gallbladder surgery is our first application. Anterior and posterior CVS images are attained on a smart phone and sent to a crowd of vetted and monitored expert graders.
- The image set is graded on smart phones and the grades are sent back to the onsite clinician.
- The grading could be Immediate and/or delayed. The grades are presented as an aggregate in real time.
- This provides validation, and a pre-clipping time out and a “second set of eyes” to improve safety in cholecystectomy.
Benefits
- Available 24/7
- Verifies the case conditions and dissection completeness
- Teaches and standardizes the endpoints of cholecystectomy dissection.
- Automatically creates an image/grade data base that is used for quality control and teaching and AI algorithm creation.
- Populates web site where the users can go to check their grading accuracy and the grading of their dissections.
