Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) pulmonary resection
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Nova Scotia Health Authority. QEII. Thoracic Clinic.
Halifax, NS:
Nova Scotia Health Authority
, 2019.
- Pamphlet Number
- 1624
- Available Online
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This guide is for patients that are being admitted to the Victoria General Hospital for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) pulmonary resection for lung cancer treatment. Your surgeon will make several small surgical cuts over your chest wall. A videoscope (a tube with a tiny camera on the end) and other small tools will be passed through these cuts.Then, your surgeon may remove part or all of your lung, drain fluid or blood that has built up, or do other procedures. One or more tubes w…
- Available Online
- View Pamphlet
- Corporate Author
- Nova Scotia Health Authority. QEII. Thoracic Clinic
- Place of Publication
- Halifax, NS
- Publisher
- Nova Scotia Health Authority
- Date of Publication
- 2019
- Format
- Pamphlet
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 electronic document ( 22 p.) : digital, PDF file
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted
- Lung - surgery
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Lungs--Surgery
- Lungs--Cancer--Surgery
- Abstract
- This guide is for patients that are being admitted to the Victoria General Hospital for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) pulmonary resection for lung cancer treatment. Your surgeon will make several small surgical cuts over your chest wall. A videoscope (a tube with a tiny camera on the end) and other small tools will be passed through these cuts.Then, your surgeon may remove part or all of your lung, drain fluid or blood that has built up, or do other procedures. One or more tubes will be placed into your chest to drain fluids that build up. The health care team has put together this Clinical Pathway so you will know what will happen to you before surgery and on a day-to-day basis after surgery. A Clinical Pathway is a general guideline about your care.
- Responsibility
- Prepared by: Thoracic Clinic Health Care Staff, QEII
- Pamphlet Number
- 1624
