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Innovations in Surgery

Paraesophageal Hernia 2010:
Controversies/What are the Data?

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How to Obtain AMA PRA
Category 1 Credit

  1. Watch the CME webcast.
  2. Take the CME posttest.
  3. Login to your account.
  4. Complete the registration / evaluation form.
  5. Print your personalized CME certificate.

Technical Requirements

 

Release Date: May 7, 2010
Expiration Date: May 7, 2012

Estimated Time of Completion: 30 minutes

Description
Innovations in Surgery is a monthly, case-based videoconference and CME webcast educational series providing demonstrations and discussions of new and innovative minimally invasive procedures, devices, and techniques.  The overall goal of this series is to enhance participants’ knowledge, competence, and skills to perform surgical procedures and improve outcomes.

Objectives
After completing this activity, the participant will be able to do the following:

  1. Classify paraesophageal hernias (PEH).
  2. Describe the typical clinical presentation of patients with PEH, and detail evaluation and management strategies.
  3. Discuss pros and cons of key controversies related to surgical management of PEH spanning the last 20 years:
    • Need for repair in all PEH patients;
    • Open vs laparoscopic approaches;
    • Patients with a short esophagus: lessons from data;
    • Role of mesh and clinical indications for its use;
    • Pros and cons of synthetic vs biologic mesh;
    • Radiographic vs clinical recurrence;
    • Evidence-based consensus PEH strategies 2010.

Target Audience
Practicing surgeons and fellows who want to improve their current practice or review recent trends in all aspects of minimally invasive surgery.

Accreditation
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Participants claiming CME credit from this activity may submit the credit hours to the American Osteopathic Association Council on Continuing Medical Education for Category 2 credit.

Executive Director
Philip R. Schauer, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Director, Bariatric and Metabolic Institute
Director, Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery
Endocrinology & Metabolism Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

CoDirectors
Adrian E. Park, MD, FACS
Campbell and Jeanette Plugge Professor of Surgery
Chief of General Surgery
University of Maryland Medical Center
Baltimore, Maryland
Steven D. Wexner, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery, Ohio State University
Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of South Florida
Chief of Staff, Cleveland Clinic Hospital
Chairman, Department of Colorectal Surgery
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Weston, Florida
Faculty

Michael R. Marohn, DO, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

Faculty Disclosure
In accordance with the Standards for Commercial Support issued by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education requires resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest to ensure CME activities are free of commercial bias.

The following faculty have indicated that they may have a relationship which, in the context of their presentation(s), could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

Adrian E. Park, MD, FACS
  Consulting:
Stryker Endoscopy
  Consulting, Fellowship Support: Covidien
 
Steven D. Wexner, MD, FACS
  Consulting: Century Medical (Japan), CR Bard, CRH Medical, Ethicon, Inc., EZ Surgical, Incontinence Devices, Inc., Intuitive Surgical, LifeCell, Medtronic Inc., Neatstitch, Niti, Signalomics GmbH
  Consulting, Inventor: Covidien, Karl Storz Endoscopy America, Inc., Power Medical Interventions
  Teaching and Speaking: Adolar / GSK

The following faculty have indicated they have no relationship which, in the context of their presentations, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

Michael R. Marohn, DO, FACS
Philip R. Schauer, MD, FACS

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education
acknowledges educational grants for partial support of this activity from:

Allergan Medical; Baxter Healthcare Corporation; Covidien; Ethicon Endo-Surgery;
Stryker Endoscopy; W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.

This CME activity was produced by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education
and the Cleveland Clinic Center for Surgical Innovation, Technology, & Education

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