Utilities and placement skills of the incision protective sleeve in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS).

ABSTRACT:

Background

The incision protective sleeve can protect incisions and help to establish an operating port and thus has been widely applied in thoracic surgeries. However, its other utilities are often neglected. This article explores the additional functions and placement techniques of incision protective sleeves in video-assisted transthoracic surgery (VATS).

Methods

Operators with different surgical experience were divided into three groups: resident group, attending surgeon group, and professor group. Each group independently chose one of the four surgical maneuvers, and the incision protective sleeve was placed during the operation. Up to 200 operations were randomly selected in each group, and the patients' gender, age, incision site, incision length, the operator's exper

SUBMITTER: Su Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7797868 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature