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Students View Kidney Surgery at Saint Barnabas through Liberty Science Center
“The project reflects the commitment of Saint Barnabas and the entire Renal Team to use technology to provide insight into the field of medicine and highlight advances in transplant surgery,” says Stuart Geffner, M.D., Director of Transplant Surgery, Saint Barnabas Health Care System. “As a surgeon, I encourage any creative educational techniques that might inspire a future surgeon or other medical professional.” Student audiences see incisions and sutures as the surgeon makes them in real time, and two-way teleconferencing enables an informative dialog between students at the Center and the surgical team at Saint Barnabas Medical Center. Students leave with in-depth knowledge of what causes kidney disease, factors that reduce risk, the importance of organ donation and career choices in kidney research and medicine. During this dialog between the students and the surgical teams, hospital staff explains everything from their career choices to the equipment in the room. A program facilitator demonstrates surgical devices just like those used in the live operation and discusses factors that cause disease. Watching a kidney transplant, live, and having students talk to operating room staff, was an incredibly compelling experience,” said Bobbi Bremmer, high school science teacher. “Students talked about it for days afterwards and a significant number now want to explore careers in medicine or biology." On February 6, 2007, Live From… Kidney Transplant will launch its first trans-Atlantic surgery broadcast to a public audience at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre in South Kensington, London, England. The Surgical Experience The Live From…Kidney Transplant program provides an observational experience of two transplant surgical procedures: students watch the surgical team retrieving the kidney from the live donor patient, cleaning and preparing the kidney for transplantation and implanting it into the patient recipient. Removal of the kidney from the donor is performed laparoscopically. Saint Barnabas team is one of the most experienced in this area, having performed laparoscopic kidney removal since 1998. An educator coordinates the interactive process with a surgical nurse in the operating rooms who keeps the students informed of the progress during each surgery and assists in fielding questions to the surgical staff. Students also have access to similar surgical instruments used during the operating and clinical models of the kidney.
This program is made possible through generous support from: For more information, please call the Speech and Hearing Center at (973) 322-7100. [ top ] |
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More than 1,400 students from 43 New Jersey high schools and middle schools have witnessed the transfer of a kidney from a live donor into a recipient's body through a unique program created by a partnership of the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, Liberty Science Center and The Sharing Network. Live From . . . Kidney Transplant, a first of its kind in kidney transplantation, is a live audio and video connection between two functioning operating rooms at Saint Barnabas Medical Center and Liberty Science Center (LSC).
