Allina Hospitals & Clinics has 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.
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.
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.
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.
Myomectomy: Revolutionary robotic treatment for uterine fibroids
Ragnvald Mjanger, MD, performs a myomectomy (removal of uterine fibroids) with the da Vinci SŪ 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.
