Five Hundred Seventy-Six Cases of Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Using Local Anesthesia and Sedation: Lessons Learned

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Analgesia 10%
• Anesthesiologists 11%
• Baltimore 14%
• Biopsy 20%
• Chylothorax 15%
• Comorbidity 8%
• Drainage 19%
• Empyema 14%
• General Anesthesia 10%
• Health 11%
• Hemothorax 15%
• Intratracheal Intubation 27%
• Intubation 11%
• Laryngeal Masks 15%
• Local Anesthesia 84%
• Lung 6%
• Lung Abscess 15%
• Lung Diseases 10%
• Nerve Block 13%
• Pleural Diseases 16%
• Pneumothorax 12%
• Surgeons 8%
• Talc 16%
• Therapeutics 3%
• Thoracotomy 11%
• Thorax 7%
• Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery 100%