Improved hand-eye coordination by a new setup for the Video-assisted tholacic surgery; Where is more adequate position for a display?

In order to accomplish Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) in a much eas ier and safer way, especially for assistant operators, we have developed a new display system for VATS. The original thoracoscope has been designed fo r this new system. The monitor is fixed at approximately 10 cm away from th e surface of the chest wall just above the operative field. In using this p rocedure, the operator and assistants can see the patient and the monitor a t the same time. According to this new idea, the previous problem in the ar ea of hand-eye coordination and the three-dimensional understanding of this procedure can be improved compared to the image of the conventional thorac oscopy, because it is not necessary for the operator and assistants to look up at the monitors. When the thoracoscopy was placed in an adequate positi on to resect the target pathology, this new system led to good and easy han dling of instruments, as it was with the standard thoracotomy.