title: "Ipsilateral, high, single-hand, sideways"-Ruijin rule for camera assistant in uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.
abstract: Camera assistant plays a very important role in uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), who acts as the eye of the surgeon, providing the VATS team with a stable and clear operating view. Thus, a good assistant should cooperate with surgeon and manipulate the camera expertly, to ensure eye-hand coordination. We have performed more than 100 uniportal VATS in the Department Of Thoracic Surgery in Ruijin Hospital. Based on our experiences, we summarized the method of holding camera, known as "ipsilateral, high, single-hand, sideways", which largely improves the comfort and fluency of surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China;; Department of Thoracic Surgery, Huainan Eastern Hospital Group, Huainan 232001, China.
authors.forename: Taotao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China.
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xiang
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China.
authors.forename: Runsen
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China.
authors.forename: Yajie
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China.
authors.forename: Han
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China.
authors.forename: Hecheng
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
keywords: Camera assistant; Ruijin rule; uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (uniportal VATS)