For more safety: no-knife stapling for vascular division during video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.
Staple cutters facilitate video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, but their potential malfunction at vascular division can threaten the patient's life. We have used no-knife staplers and have divided between the staple lines without event. We show this technique to be a risk management alternative.
Yoshida
Junichi
J
Department of Surgery, Shimonoseki City Hospital, 1-13-1 Koyo-cho, Shimonoseki, Japan. cokeieik@city.shimonoseki.yamaguchi.jp
Sata
Sojiro
S
D004869:Equipment Safety; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000601:surgery; D011667:Pulmonary Veins / Q000601:surgery; D012308:Risk Management; D013528:Surgical Staplers; D017792:Surgical Stapling / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000601:surgery*