Non-intubated video-assisted thoracic surgery: the final frontier?

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR.
² Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR calvinng@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk.

Editorial

Ze-Rui Zhao et al. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2016 Nov.

. 2016 Nov;50(5):925-926.

doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezw183. Epub 2016 May 30.

¹ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR.
² Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR calvinng@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk.

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Keywords: Non-intubated anaesthesia; Uniportal; Video-assisted thoracic surgery.

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