How I do it ...

A series of photos, videos and text descriptions of common thoracic operations.

• Drains - inserting a chest drain
• Patient assessment
  • Clerk in a patient
  • Assessment for lung resection
• Fundoplication
  • Abdominal - open (text with diagrams)
  • Thoracotomy - open (text with diagrams)
• Jejunostomy -minilaparotomy (text)
• Lung resection
  • Description (text)
  • Preoperative assessment (text)
  • VATS lobectomy (video)
• Minitracheostomy (text with photos)
• Morgagni Hernia - laparoscopic repair (photos with text)
• Oesophagectomy
  • Total thoracic oesophagectomy
  • VATS oesophageal mobilisation
• Thymectomy
  • Thoracoscopic (VATS) thymectomy - (photos and text)
• Pleurodesis
  • Talc pleurodesis (slurry at the bedside)
  • Talc pleurodesis (insufflation at thoracoscopy)
  • Pleur-X catheter insertion (photos and text)
• Sympathectomy (thoracoscopic)
  • Description (text with links to video)
  • Right side (video 1.2 Mb)
  • Left side (video 3Mb)
• Pectus Repair
  • Description (text with links to short video clips)
  • Full pectus repair (Video 37Mb This is a large 37Mb file and will take a while to download)
• Thoracotomy
  • Posterior (auscultatory triangle) muscle sparing thoracotomy (photos and text), (video 10Mb)
  • Intercostal nerve protection to reduce intercostal neuralgia (video)
  • Extrapleural paravertebral infusion (photos with text)