Filming surgical procedures and including them in the patient’s operative notes should become a routine part of surgeons’ documentation processes, Dutch researchers say.

The push comes on the back of a study that looked at the impact of systematically videoing laparoscopic colorectal cancer surgery on the accuracy of recording key procedural steps in the notes.

The team from Erasmus University Medical Centre studied 113 patients who underwent elective laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer and whose surgeons were videoed during the procedure.

The average case recording was 31 minutes long