Awake video-assisted thoracoscopic bullectomy and pleural abrasion

Fazlı Yanık; Elif Çopuroğlu; Cenk Balta; Yekta Altemur Karamustafaoğlu

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2017.12952

Fazlı Yanık¹, Elif Çopuroğlu², Cenk Balta¹, Yekta Altemur Karamustafaoğlu¹

¹Trakya Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Göğüs Cerrahisi Anabilim Dalı, Edirne, Türkiye
²Trakya Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon Anabilim Dalı, Edirne, Türkiye

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2017.12952

Advantages of awake video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery may be named as protection from risks of general anesthesia and intubation, and decreasing the duration of hospital stay and overall costs. In this article, we present a 31-year-old male patient who was performed bullectomy with awake video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery under sedation and thoracic epidural anesthesia with a diagnosis of primary spontaneous pneumothorax. However, further studies are needed to assess the overall risks and benefits.

Keywords : Pneumothorax; sedation; video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

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