[Thoracoplasty]

[A training film shot on the Surgical Division of the "Wilhelminen Spital" Vienna (Chief Prof. Dr. P. Walzel]

[Producer: Lechner-Medizinfilm, Vienna I.]

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[Patient is draped and prepped for surgery.]

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[Local anesthesia is administered.]

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[Scalpels and other instruments are shown.]

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[A machine for nitrous oxide and ether is brought over to the hospital bed and a mask placed over the patient's face.]

[Components are adjusted.]

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[The patient's chest is opened up and surgery commences.]

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[Blood vessels are clamped and additional incisions made as surgery continues.]

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[Portions of the ribs are removed.]

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[Surgeons begin to sew up the patient and close the incision.]

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[The sewn-up incision is shown and gauze is applied.]

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[Another chest surgery is shown.]

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[The exposed lung inflates and deflates.]

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[Rib resection is shown.]

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[The surgeon points to the subclavian artery.]

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[The incision is closed.]

[End]