Audio-Digest Foundation Announces the Release of Orthopaedics Volume 36, Issue 11: Wrists and Spines
Glendale, CA (PRWEB) September 11, 2013 -- Audio-Digest Foundation Announces the Release of Orthopaedics Volume 36, Issue 11: Wrists and Spines.
The goals of this program are to improve techniques for scapholunate repair and tendon transfer among patients with tetraplegia; review the surgical approach to atlantoaxial instability in the pediatric population; and understand advances in spinal surgery. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:
1. Review the current treatment options for injury to the scapholunate ligament.
2. Describe appropriate candidates for tendon transfer surgery among patients with tetraplegia.
3. Discuss the goals and treatment options for tendon transfer surgery.
4. List the advantages of condylar screw placement for the treatment of atlantoaxial instability in the pediatric population.
5. Summarize current evidence in favor of image-guided navigation systems and robotic involvement for spinal surgery.
The original programs were presented by Mark S. Cohen, MD, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Director, Hand Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, Michael S. Bednar, MD, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chief, Division of Hand Surgery, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, Libby Kosnik Infinger, MD, Neurosurgery Resident, University of South Carolina, Charleston, and Isador Lieberman, MD, Director, Scoliosis and Spine Tumor Center, Texas Back Institute, Plano.
Audio-Digest Foundation, the largest independent publisher of Continuing Medical Education in the world, records over 10,000 hours of lectures every year in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, family practice, gastroenterology, general surgery, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, otolaryngology, pediatrics, psychology, and urology, by the leading medical researchers at the top laboratories, universities, and institutions.
Recent researchers have hailed from Harvard, Cedars-Sinai, Mayo Clinic, UCSF, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center, The University of California, San Diego, The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, The University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and many others.
Out of these cutting-edge programs, Audio-Digest then chooses the most clinically relevant, edits them for clarity, and publishes them either every week or every two weeks.
In addition, Audio-Digest publishes subscription series in conjunction with leading medical societies: DiabetesInsight with The American Diabetes Association, ACCEL with The American College of Cardiology, Continuum Audio with The American Academy of Neurology, and Journal Watch Audio General Medicine with Massachusetts Medical Society.
For 60 years, the global medical community of doctors, nurses, physician assistants, and other medical professionals around the world has subscribed to Audio-Digest specialty series in order to remain current in their specialties as well as to maintain their Continuing Education requirements with the most cutting-edge, independent, and unbiased continuing medical education (CME).
Long a technical innovator, Audio-Digest was the first to produce audio medical education programs and the first to produce in-car medical education. Currently, its subscription and annual products are available on CD and MP3, as well as iPhone, iPad, and Android apps.
Paul Angles, Learner's Digest International, http://www.audio-digest.org, (818) 240-7500, [email protected]
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