MED Student Recognized for Anesthesia Video
Kelly Elterman (MED’09) wins award from New York State Society of Anesthesiologists
Last December, Kelly Elterman (MED’09) and Konstantin Balonov, anesthesiology chief resident at Boston Medical Center, received a special award at the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists 62nd Postgraduate Assembly in Anesthesiology. Their accomplishment? Producing and filming a 35-minute video that demystifies general anesthesia for medical students.
The video explains the process of administering general anesthesia, taking the viewer from the preoperative stage of meeting the patient and gaining consent to transporting the patient to the actual administering of anesthesia.
“Most of our operating room scenes were filmed in real time, with real patients,” Elterman says. “All of the real patients in the video formally consented.”
She and Balonov also mastered some filmmaking technology, including the use of high-definition video — which Elterman says gives the film a “lifelike quality” — and using a green screen special-effect to change backgrounds during the narration. “Making the video was an extensive process, and we did everything ourselves,” she says.
Elterman is currently working with Rafael Ortega, a MED associate professor and the vice chair of anesthesia at BMC, and Christopher Hansen, a department research assistant, on a sequel to the video, which will be called Neuroaxial Anesthesia, an Introduction. It will introduce medical students to spinal and epidural anesthesia.
Davide Nardi can be reached at dnardi@bu.edu.
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