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Tubeless video-assisted thoracic surgery for lung cancer: is it ready for prime time?

[...]more potentially operable (stages IA-IIIA) lung cancer patients can be identified to receive timely treatments especially surgery, with a much-extended survival (3). [...]in patients receiving a thoracic epidural for pain management following cardiothoracic surgery, it is common to leave the ep...

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Published in:Future oncology (London, England) England), 2020-06, Vol.16 (18), p.1229-1234
Main Authors: Wen, Yaokai, Jiang, Yu, Liang, Hengrui, Jiang, Long, Guo, Zhihua, Musonza, Clive, Thomas, 3rd, R Lucas, Yang, Chenglin, He, Jiaxi, Shen, Jianfei, Chen, Lei, Sun, Haibo, Wright, Gavin M, Zhang, Jian, Yang, Qintai, Zhong, Shengyi, Liang, Wenhua, Li, Shuben, Zhang, Jianrong, He, Jianxing
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Summary:[...]more potentially operable (stages IA-IIIA) lung cancer patients can be identified to receive timely treatments especially surgery, with a much-extended survival (3). [...]in patients receiving a thoracic epidural for pain management following cardiothoracic surgery, it is common to leave the epidural in until the chest tube is removed. [...]early chest tube removal, or simply not placing a chest tube at all after surgery, can not only reduce postoperative pain and reduce the length of stay (13), but also potentially decrease in-hospital cost. [...]we also think of potential complications related to tubeless VATS. For this, however, the related indication based on strong evidence remains unclear. [...]studies are warranted, especially to identify risk factors of the complications occurred in patients without postoperative chest tube placement.
ISSN:1479-6694
1744-8301
DOI:10.2217/fon-2020-0278