A thin polymer film that seals surgical wounds could make sutures a relic of medical history.

Measuring just 50 microns, the film is placed on a surgical wound and exposed to an infrared laser, which heats the film just enough to meld it and the tissue, thus perfectly sealing the wound. Known as Surgilux, the device's raw material is extracted from crab shells and has Food and Drug Administration approval in the US

Dr. Schreiber at Harper University Hospital pioneers a new minimally invasive treatment to prevent stroke in patients with carotid artery disease. ~ Detroit Medical Center

Examination of the heart and lungs with heart sounds

Myomectomy means the surgical removal of just the fibroid, with reconstruction and repair of the uterus. There are now a number of techniques used to perform myomectomy: through an abdominal incision, vaginal incision, with a laparoscope

This video clips shows a tubal ligation (sterilization) performed on a female using a fallopian ring applicator

A video describing the procedure of colonoscopy or flexible fibre-optic examination of the colon.

Examination of the heart from the USMLE collection

A videos showing Responsive Airway Obstruction and how to deal with that situation

olusegun adekanye's spinal disc replacement operation performed by Dr. Nick Thomas at the Blackheath Hospital.

A video showing the pathology of otitis media

This video shows how to insert a catheter in a baby girl

This is a video of a carpal tunnel release surgery

Endometrial Ablation

An old video showing how to give an enema

This video demonstrates the use of an episiotomy to facilitate vaginal delivery of a baby

Brain port surgery is a minimally invasive surgical technique performed through a specially designed tube about the size of a dime. Using neuronavigation GPS-like guidance, the brain port is inserted into the brain with millimeter accuracy and is used as a channel to guide the surgeon and his/her instruments to various regions of the brain. Colloid cysts, metastatic tumors, and a variety of tumors within the ventricles are often candidates for this approach.

This video demonstrates pelvic adhesions found in a patient with endometriosis during laparoscopic surgery.

Natural Orifice Endoscopic Transgastric Distal Pancreatectomy, A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial. Natural orifice surgery may represent a paradigm shift in the area of minimally invasive surgery and therapeutic endoscopy. However, studies to date have been limited primarily to small ca...se series with small sample sizes. There has been no large rigorous randomized controlled trial of natural orifice surgery to date. Early work on procedures such as peritoneoscopy, oophorectomy and tubal ligation, while pioneering, have reproduced laparoscopic procedures with minimal morbidity and mortality. In contrast, distal pancreatectomy has a post-operative morbidity of more than 50% even in high volume tertiary care centers. As a highly morbid surgery, the post-operative event rate would allow for a significant difference to be seen in a trial of conventional versus NOTES distal pancreatectomy. We have recently completed a prospective randomized controlled trial of NOTES versus laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy in a swine model which builds on our earlier non-survival work. This video focuses on the endoscopic technique.

Appendectomy (midline caecum)

Resection of a glioblastoma multiforme, a very malignant, aggressive brain tumor.