Image-guided video-assisted thoracoscopic resection (iVATS): Translation to clinical practice-real-world experience.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We developed a novel approach for localization and resection of lung nodules, using image-guided video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (iVATS). We report our experience of translating iVATS into clinical care.

Methods

Methodology and workflow for iVATS developed as part of the Phase I/II trial were used to train surgeons, radiologists, anesthesiologists, and radiology technologists. Radiation dose, time from induction to incision, placement of T-bar to incision and incision to closure, hospital stay, and complication rates were recorded.

Results

Fifty patients underwent iVATS for resection of 54 nodules in a clinical hybrid operating room (OR) by six surgeons. Fifty-two (97%) nodules were successfully resected. Forty-two (84%) patients underwent wedge resecti

SUBMITTER: Gill RR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7383497 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature