Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Exactly.

But we have decisively entered an era where video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, or VATS, alongside advanced flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy has fundamentally rewritten in our algorithms.

Right.

And we’re gonna rigorously evaluate the application of both VATS and advanced therapeutic bronchoscopy today.

And we’re not just gonna list what these tools are.

I mean, you already know the hardware.

Right.

Exactly.

Then you have mediastinoscopy for stations two, four R, four L, and seven.

For peripheral nodes, like stations five, six, eight, and nine, you use video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, or VATS.

Exactly.

And finally, the Chamberlain procedure, where you actually take a piece of the second rib off the angle of Louis just to reach tricky stations like four L and five.

Yeah.

I have to ask, why a-all the different tools? Why can’t we just use a single minimally invasive scope like VATS to check every single tollbooth?

It seems like that would be easier, right?

Yeah.

He's a good old Brit who moved over to the UAE to continue his career.

And he told us about his Uniportal journey from Uniportal VATS to Uniportal Robotics.

Hi, Joel Dunning here with CTSNet, and I'm absolutely delighted to be here in the UAE, and I found a pal, Fais, who I know very well from the UK.

You now work here in the UAE, but that's not what we're going to talk about, because you've just done a first in this country, and a really exciting first.

move on to U-rats.

from the uniportal and which is easier because once you practice uniportal, you know the way you go through.

In the UK with uniportal VATS discharge 25 patients on day two.

Here I try to discharge them day three, day four.