The need for persons to move around a crowded operating room during a surgical procedure is reduced by providing each of the persons tasked with operating surgical equipment, such as a laser, with a portable or handheld communication device capable of transmitting instructions and commands necessary to operate the laser, and by further providing each person in the operating room whose duties require observing a monitor with display devices capable of displaying video and other information shown on the monitor. The handheld wireless communication devices may be smartphones or tablets, and the display devices may be separate wireless display devices or displays of the smartphones or tablets. Operation of the surgical equipment may be by voice commands, allowing the equipment to be controlled while continuously viewing the video and information on the display device
