Ethical Considerations of Live Case Transmissions

Live cases are the heart of teaching surgical and interventional techniques and advancing the practice and science of medicine. Today, the venue has changed because of developments in communication technology. We now have at our command real-time global access to live cases for both professional and lay audiences alike. New avenues are opened to expand training, to accelerate the diffusion of advances, to promote adoptions of innovations, to improve the quality of care (1) and to raise public awareness of newly available interventions.