Modifying the GoPro Hero 4 for recording high definition video in the operating room.

Video capturing procedures in the operating room is becoming increasingly more popular and recordings can be used for teaching, presentation at conferences and courses and for surgical technique analysis 1 Graves S.N. Shenaq D.S. Langerman A.J. Song D.H. Video capture of plastic surgery procedures using the GoPro HERO 3+. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2015; 3: e312https://doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000000242 Crossref PubMed Scopus (43) Google Scholar , 2 Lin L.K. Surgical video recording with a modified GoPro Hero 4 camera. Clin Ophthalmol. 2016; 10: 117-119https://doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S95666 Crossref PubMed Scopus (15) Google Scholar as well as potentially becoming a medico-legal record. Specialised surgical cameras exist but these are expensive with limited resolutions. There are many relatively inexpensive commercially available high-resolution action cameras which can be modified to provide very high definition video recordings in the operating room.