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OR-Live webcasts: Watch surgery online

Allina Hospitals & Clinics teamed up with OR-Live, Inc. an Internet broadcasting company which creates live and on-demand health care video. Now you can watch these surgical procedures at your own computer.

Cardiac device implant

An estimated 200,000 pacemaker patients every year in the United States have to forgo MRI scans, which are critical for making various health diagnoses. The FDA-approved Revo MRI™ is the first and only pacemaker in the U.S. specifically designed for use in an MRI environment under certain conditions.

William Katsiyiannis, MD, electrophysiologist with the Minneapolis Heart Institute®, implants the Revo MRI™ pacemaker in a patient at Abbott Northwestern Hospital.

Replay pacemaker surgery webcast.

View preview and physicians' comments.

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Brain surgery

Neurosurgeon Jerone Kennedy, MD, performs a brain surgery that was expected to last only a few hours, but turned into a 25 hour marathon in an intraoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (iMRI) operating room at United Hospital. The iMRI allows surgeons use real-time imaging as they operate. The operating room has a unique overhead track that moves the MRI system to the patient rather than the patient having to be moved to the magnet.

Replay brain surgery webcast.

Read the news release with the patient's story.

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	Total knee replacement surgery Dana Harms MD, orthopedic surgeon, performs total knee replacement surgery at Buffalo Hospital in Buffalo, Minnesota. David Labadie, MD, orthopedic surgeon, narrates. This procedure relieves knee pain and increases mobility by resurfacing the knee's damaged and worn surfaces. Replay total knee replacement webcast. Related service Allina Total Joint Program: Total knee replacement Buffalo Hospital: Orthopedic medicine
	Weight loss surgery: Adjustable gastric band surgery Surgeon Jeffrey Baker, MD, performs adjustable gastric band surgery at Unity Hospital in Fridley, Minnesota. Frederick Johnson, MD, surgeon, answers viewers' questions. This laparoscopic procedure is one of several proven surgical options for weight loss. Replay weight loss surgery webcast. Related service Allina's Bariatric Centers: Weight loss surgery Unity Hospital Bariatric and Weight Loss Center
	Myomectomy: Revolutionary robotic treatment for uterine fibroids Ragnvald Mjanger, MD, performs a myomectomy (removal of uterine fibroids) with the da Vinci S® Surgical System at United Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. The da Vinci is the most advanced surgical technique for the treatment of uterine fibroids, the most frequent pelvic tumors seen by gynecologists. Replay myomectomy webcast. Related services da Vinci robotic surgery: Bobbi's story United Hospital: Robotic surgery