This Week on ORLive: Surgical Approaches — Adhesion Prevention and Chronic Low Back Pain

WEST HARTFORD, CT–(Marketwire – October 19, 2010) –  BroadcastMed, the leader in online medical video, starts the week with a live broadcast intended for European audiences focused on Adhesion Prevention in Gynaecological Surgery. Later in the week the focus turns to low back pain in a live broadcast of a minimally invasive spine surgery. Rounding out new content this week are new on-demand CME features available on our BroadcastMedCME channel.

Additional on-demand features this month include our library of procedures and educational programming focused on breast cancer surgeries and BroadcastMed invites you to take part in the latest installment of the Virtual Brain Tumor Board.

NEW ON ORLIVE

LIVE SURGERY VIDEO – Contemporary Adhesion Prevention In Gynaecological Surgery

Premieres Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 2:30PM EDT/19:30 GMT

Participate in this live interactive webcast as gynaecological surgeons Prof. Jeremy Wright and Mr. Andrew Kent review surgical footage and discuss the inherent challenges with conventional adhesion prevention techniques. The faculty will share case reports and will contrast the pros and cons of available options, including the SprayShield™ adhesion barrier system.

This program features the SprayShield™ adhesion barrier system. It is intended for audiences outside the United States where the SprayShield™ system has CE Mark approval, and is indicated for use in patients undergoing laparotomy or laparoscopic abdominopelvic surgery as an adjunct to good surgical technique intended to reduce the incidence, severity, and extent of postsurgical adhesions.

This surgery video is available exclusively to members of the ORLive community, and members can interact and ask questions via the ORLive website. Learn more about this broadcast or get a reminder at ORLive.com, and be ready to view this exciting procedure by activating your free membership to ORLive today.

LIVE SUGERY VIDEO – Treating Chronic Back Pain with Minimally Invasive Surgery

Premieres Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 4PM EDT

Surgery for chronic back pain doesn’t have to mean a long stay in the hospital and a slow recovery. On Thursday, October 21, Baptist Hospital neurosurgeon Sergio Gonzalez-Arias, MD, will perform a minimally invasive spine surgery during a live webcast. The minimally invasive approach is used to relieve various types of pain. The advantages over a traditional surgical procedure are less blood loss, less pain, smaller incisions and a quicker recovery. Many patients go home the same day of the surgery. Watch the live webcast and see this fascinating procedure as it happens. 

Viewers are invited to send e-mail questions to Dr. Gonzalez-Arias during the webcast.

Viewers can also choose to watch the webcast in Spanish.

Learn more about this broadcast or get a reminder at ORLive.com, and be ready to view this exciting procedure by activating your free membership to ORLive today.

NEW CME ON BROADCASTMED

NEW CME VIDEO — Antiplatelet Therapy: Difficult Situations in Everyday Practice

Premiers Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Join Doctors from multiple specialties discuss common solutions for the management of patients requiring antiplatelet therapy. Presenters include cardiologist Oscar C. Marroquin, MD, internists Robert E. Schoen, MD MPH and Catalin Toma, MD, and surgical oncologist A. James Moser, MD, FACS.

Educational Objectives

• Draw informed clinical decisions in cardiovascular medicine.
• Cite responsible and balanced debate on conventional and controversial issues in the area of cardiovascular medicine.
• Discuss the management of patients with asymptomatic aortic stenosis.
• Forecast and discuss important issues and trends in cardiovascular medicine.

You can find more CME on the BroadcastMed CME Channel on ORLive.com, and a complete multispecialty library of CME offerings at the UPMC Physician Resources website.

ORLIVE REFERRALS — Week of October 18, 2010
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and each week ORLive highlights related on-demand videos for our membership and visitors. 

Breast Cancer Surgery Referral: Surgical Advances in Axillary and Sentinel Lymph Node Dissection, from Ethicon Endo-Surgery

CME Referral: New Perspectives in Sepsis for the Critical Care Nurse, from CMEducation Resources

Viewer’s Referral: Cancer and Thrombosis Management: DVT and Prophylaxis and Disease Modification in Cancer Patients, from CMEducation Resources

HIGHLIGHTS

NOW ON-DEMAND – LEGION™ Total Knee System with VISIONAIRE™ Patient Matched Insturmentation

Now Available On-Demand

Kenneth Cherry, MD will demonstrate his approach to address efficiency in the OR by utilizing the LEGION Total Knee System in conjunction with VISIONAIRE Patient Matched Instrumentation while Dr. Steven Haas, from the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, moderates the procedure. Combining the two technologies, will reduce OR time and eliminate up to 23 surgical steps from the TKA procedure thereby making efficiency more accessible.

Learn more about this broadcast or get a reminder at ORLive.com, and be ready to view this exciting procedure by activating your free membership to ORLive today.

NOW ON-DEMAND — Acute Onocologic Emergencies

Now Available ON-Demand

Join Ahmad Tarhini, MD as he reviews onocologic emergencies in this presentation from a recent UPMC Medical Grand Rounds.

Educational Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Better manage epidural spinal cord compression in patients.
• Better management of hypercalcemia of malignancy in cancer patients.
• Increase the management of superior vena cava syndrome in cancer patients.

You can find more CME on the BroadcastMed CME Channel on ORLive.com, and a complete multispecialty library of CME offerings at the UPMC Physician Resources website.

About BroadcastMed
BroadcastMed is the leading provider of video communication channels and solutions to the healthcare community. Working collaboratively with hospitals, device manufacturers, and pharmaceutical companies, BroadcastMed produces and distributes customized, interactive, video programs that demonstrate the latest advances in medicine, surgical techniques and product innovations, and promotes them to a verified audience of more than 700,000 healthcare professionals. The BroadcastMed network of sites provides an intimate look at over 650 live and on-demand surgeries, medical education, and symposia to global audiences that watch and learn from more than 40 million video views annually. The BroadcastMed network can be found on-line at www.BroadcastMed.com. 

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