On-line Video

On-line Video

Files in this Data Supplement:

• Video 1 - Video 1 (.rm format). After the upper lobectomy, a pulmonary artery was pinched up with forceps and it was transected at the root, inducing active bleeding. After temporary control of the bleeding with a finger, the tip of ball electrode was applied to the bleeding point and moved in a circular motion. The bleeding point was closed immediately. The closed point did not bleed again even when scratched by a surgical instrument.
• Video 2 - Video 2 (.rm format). The other three cases of the closure of the transected bleeding point; two of them well tolerated scratching after hemostasis.