This single center, open RCT compared patients’ satisfaction with local (LA) or general anesthesia (GA) for video-assisted thoracoscopy. Fifty patients were allocated to GA and 57 to LA. Patient satisfaction did not differ significantly for anesthesiology care, general perioperative care, or recovery after surgery.
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VATS
May 9, 2023
April 4, 2023
This video demonstrates the drainage of a large pre- and bilateral paravertebral tubercular abscess via two-port VATS.
February 21, 2023
This video demonstrates a uniportal VATS right segmentectomy from S7 to S10 with indocyanine green imaging.
January 23, 2023
This video demonstrates a right S9+S10 VATS segmentectomy through an original butterfly inferior approach, from surgical flight simulation to day-surgery.
January 17, 2023
This video demonstrates the multimodal management of an isolated anomalous systemic arterial supply to normal lung from the abdominal aorta, complicated by an aneurysm of the artery.
January 16, 2023
This video demonstrates a video-assisted wedge resection to improve symptoms in a fourteen-year-old boy with previously undiagnosed congenital pulmonary airway malformation.
December 27, 2022
This year, adult cardiac submissions to CTSNet spanned a variety of fascinating procedures, from mammary artery harvesting to the innovative Y-incision technique for aortic annular enlargement. Read on for a quick overview of the most popular adult cardiac articles and videos on CTSNet in 2022 and stay tuned for many more in 2023.
December 19, 2022
This video demonstrates how video assisted thoracoscopy surgery can be utilized for successful lung detorsion in symptomatic individuals.
December 1, 2022
Because of the recent advancement in robotic thoracic surgery, this retrospective study aimed to evaluate post-operative chronic pain in robotic versus video-assisted approaches.