Thoracic surgery
- Esophageal procedures WITH mucosal breach, including laparoscopic
- Excision of Zenker’s diverticulum
- Esophageal procedures withOUT mucosal breach
- Radical thymectomy, open or VATS
- Pneumonectomy
- Lobectomy
- Thoracotomy
- Thoracoscopy, including video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)
- Mediastinoscopy
- Thoracentesis
- Chest tube insertion for spontaneous pneumothorax
- Closed chest tube insertion for chest trauma with hemo/pneumothorax
- Chest wall resection with mesh insertion