This morning's session included a presentation on the use of "live case presentations" Formerly a method of presentation at the Veith Meeting but no longer used. Live case presentations are more commonly seen at catheter based conferences usually associated with interventional radiology IR and Interventional Cardioloy IC.
The controversy surrounds the informed consent process which theoretically should include a discussion with the patient that the operation will include the procedure and its risk plus the discussion of the simultaneous narrative to the audience by the physician and the fact that this may theoretically result in some level of distraction which might theoretically result in untoward outcome. Although I understand his concern, for those of us who operate in a teaching environment, were constantly narrating and discussing the education aspects of the procedure to our resident, medical student, assisting nurses, anesthesiologist. So how does it differ if we have a microphone attached and a closed circuit camera in the room
Bottom line: live case demonstrations will probably become less frequent due to theoretical medical liability issues.
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