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THIS IS LIFE - Uniportal VATS

By Diego Gonzalez Rivas 8 Videos

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August 27, 2015

premiered in China at the University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Hospital on Friday 20th of ...
read more ↘ March with the surgeon who created the technique and the Hollywood-nominated director present. “This is Life” depicts how Diego Gonzalez Rivas, a Spanish surgeon who became the first in the world to perform single port thoracoscopic surgery in 2010, changed his patients’ lives in the four years following the creation of the technique. Thoracic surgery is performed mainly to remove part of the lung for lung cancer sufferers.
The movie was directed by Daniel Lopez, and it was recorded in different countries such as Emirates, UK, Poland, Spain, Russia or China. In the movie we can see how Dr Gonzalez Rivas travel around the world teaching the uniportal VATS technique. Dani Lopez met Rivas in 2010, a few months after his ex-wife died of lung cancer at 29. Lopez try to show patients that the option of surgery exists and that it could give some of them a second chance at life. During the procedure, one very small (3cm to 4cm) incision is made, instead of more conventional video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) or traditional open surgery. In comparison to VATS, which utilizes multiple incisions, Rivas’ method shows that less really is more. There is less pain, less recovery time and less scarring for patients with no sacrifice in quality. The movie also shows the story of a patient operated by this minimally invasive technique and with no intubation, representing the less invasive approach to operate lung cancer. The cultural aspects of each country are included as a highlighted content of the movie.
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