-
Thoracic surgery clinics · Feb 2020
ReviewTreatment of Pleural Effusions with Nonintubated Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery.
- Thamer Robert Qaqish, Solange Cox, Rebecca Carr, and Mark Katlic.
- Department of Surgery, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, 2435 West Belvedere Avenue, Suite 42, Baltimore, MD 21215, USA.
- Thorac Surg Clin. 2020 Feb 1; 30 (1): 25-32.
AbstractVideo-assisted thoracic surgery has considerably improved the care of the thoracic surgical patient. Patients are able to leave the hospital sooner and experience less pain with equal oncologic outcomes when compared with open surgery. Nonintubated thoracic surgery has more recently been applied in the management of both benign and malignant pleural effusions. This article provides the general thoracic surgeon a detailed description on how to manage pleural effusions using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in a nonintubated patient. Surgical techniques and pearls are also presented.Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..