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Urgent awake thoracoscopic treatment of retained haemothorax associated with respiratory failure

Eugenio Pompeo1, Benedetto Cristino1, Paola Rogliani1

  • 1Departments of 1 Thoracic Surgery, 2 Pulmonology, 3 Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Policlinico Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy.

Annals of Translational Medicine
|June 6, 2015
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Haemothoraxawake video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)complicationnonintubated VATSrespiratory failureurgent setting

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