%0 Journal Article
%T Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery versus robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery and postoperative opioid consumption
%A Bayman, Emine Ozgur
%A Brennan, Timothy J.
%J Journal of Thoracic Disease
%D 2018
%B 2018
%9 
%! Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery versus robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery and postoperative opioid consumption
%K 
%X Even though the concept of thoracoscopy was first described in 1910s, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) was not used in the operating rooms until 1990’s (1).  The use of VATS lobectomy procedures, compared to open approaches, increased from 10% in 2002 to 29% in 2007 (1,2). The reason for the popularization of VATS, as an alternative to thoracotomy, was the suggestion that VATS could reduce the surgery-related complications (1). A more recent and similarly less invasive alternative to VATS is robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS).
%U https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/23490
%P S3222-S3223
%@ 2077-6624