FlexDex™ Needle Holder Used to Perform a Diaphragm Plication

2018-06-13T17:00:03Z (GMT) by Joel Dunning

This is a video demonstrating the use of the FlexDex™ needle holder to perform a left video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) diaphragm plication (1). The FlexDex™ needle holder is a new device that allows the wristed flexibility of robotic surgery with the by-the-bedside "surgeon-powered" convenience of VATS. The author uses it for the first time in the UK for a diaphragm plication, where a line of horizontal mattress sutures was needed to plicate the diaphragm in a patient with idiopathic phrenic nerve paralysis.





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