ORlive: Pictures That Are Worth More Than a Thousand Words
Not so long ago, only medical professionals and sedated patients were allowed inside the operating room while surgery was taking place…not anymore! An amazing web site called ORlive is now giving anyone with internet access the chance to view detailed footage of actual operations.
screenshot from or-live.com video
This innovative site’s search engines allow users to easily locate broadcasts from specific institutions ranging from the Akron Children’s Hospital to Zimmer, Inc, and the capability to sort according to specialties such as cardiovascular, pediatrics, or oncology. In addition to operations, ORlive gives you on-demand access to other medical procedures like radiation treatments and laboratory studies.
Want more? Some of the live webcasts give you the rare opportunity to e-mail questions to the physician(s) who are performing the procedure which they answer before the completion of the segment.
WARNING to those who don’t care for the sight of blood and guts: Videos featured on ORlive are the real deal and are shown from a surgeon’s or provider’s vantage point. Images can be extremely graphic in nature and may not be suitable for some viewers.
Recent webcasts about a new radiation therapy for treating brain tumors and a liver resection surgery will be of particular interest to some cancer patients.
A live broadcast from Tufts-New England Medical Center relating to kidney cancer is also scheduled for July 25, 2007.
ORlive’s free, high quality images are certain to be a valuable resource for students, teachers, patients, caregivers, scientists, journalists, medical providers and the merely curious.
Source: CRJ
Tags: interactive health; Carolinas Medical Center; North Carolina; Hartford Hospital; Connecticut; Trilogy Stereostatic Radiation; CME; Boston; Massachusetts; slp3D; webcasts
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