Orthopaedic Webcasts & Orthopaedic Webinars | Orthogate Professionals

On Thursday, February 8, 2006 at 8 PM EST, join NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital orthopedic surgeons Drs. William B. Macaulay and Jeffrey A. Geller for an OR-Live.com webcast discussion on total hip resurfacing.

The doctors will show highlights from an actual total hip resurfacing surgery, discuss the procedure and its promise as an alternative to total hip replacement, and engage in a live question and answer session with audience members. 

Join Alliance Hospital and Basin Orthopedic Surgical Specialists (BOSS) in Odessa, Texas for a live webcast of a Minimal Incision Total Knee Replacement procedure on Tuesday, January 23, at 6 PM CST on OR-Live.com 

Wright Medical Group, Inc., a global orthopaedic medical device company, will sponsor a webcast highlighting the new PATH® minimally invasive (MIS) technique for total hip arthroplasty, led by Brad Penenberg, MD of Los Angeles, California. The web event will be moderated by Lowry Barnes, MD of Little Rock, Arkansas and will take place Friday, January 19 at 5:00 p.m. PST.  Tennis legend Jimmy Connors will provide commentary about his recent hip replacement.

On Tuesday, December 5, at 4:30 pm (MT), Tucson Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona, will broadcast a live Zimmer MIS 2-Incision Total Hip Replacement procedure featuring the VerSys® Epoch® FullCoat Hip Prosthesis and the Trabecular Metal^TM Modular Acetabular System with Longevity® Highly Crosslinked Polyethylene live on OR-Live.com.

The VerSys Epoch Hip Prosthesis' distinct composite stem design has a low modulus of elasticity to address concerns about proximal bone resorption resulting from stress shielding, as well as concerns about thigh pain that can result from a bending stiffness mismatch between the prosthesis and natural bone, particularly with larger stems. It was created to offer an extensively porous-coated implant in larger stem sizes without a significant increase in stem stiffness when compared to smaller sizes or proximally coated implants.

On Thursday, November 16, at 6:00 p.m. (MT), LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, UT will broadcast a live Zimmer MIS Total Knee replacement procedure featuring the Zimmer Gender Solutions High-Flex Knee, the first knee replacement shaped to fit a woman's anatomy.

This OR-Live.com broadcast is in conjunction with the Zimmer MIS Surgical Solutions in the Hip & Knee Symposium.

On Monday, November 6, at 6:00 pm (PST), Zimmer, Inc. will broadcast a live surgical demonstration on OR-Live.com of the Zimmer® MIS^TM Periarticular Locking Plate procedure with the 3.5mm Proximal Lateral Tibial locking plate and the Distal Lateral Femoral locking plate as well as the innovative instrumentation developed for this tissue-friendly approach to plating.

With the Periarticular Locking Plate System, Zimmer offers advanced solutions for the management of comminuted fractures and fractures in which deficient bone stock or where poor bone quality is encountered. The system combines anatomically contoured periarticular plates with locking screw technology. The unique plate designs feature a transitioned profile that is thinner in the metaphyseal and thicker in the diaphyseal areas. Locking screw holes are combined with compression slots, so that the plates can be used both as locking devices and a fracture compression device.

On Monday, October 30, 2006 at 7pm EST Crittenton Hospital in Rochester Hills, Michigan will host a live surgical broadcast featuring Jeffrey H. DeClaire, MD, of the DeClaire Knee & Orthopaedic Institute. Dr. DeClaire will perform a patellofemoral joint replacement using the Vanguard™ PFR patellofemoral replacement system from Biomet Orthopedics, Inc.

On Monday, October 16, at 5:00 p.m. CDT, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL will broadcast on http://www.OR-Live.com   a live total knee replacement procedure featuring the Zimmer Gender Solutions High-Flex Knee, the first knee replacement shaped to fit a woman's anatomy.