Table II.

Advantages and disadvantages of awake video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (A-VATS)

Advantages of A-VATS	Disadvantages of A-VATS
Short hospital stay	Lack of adequate lung collapse
Absence of intubation-related complications	Poor image opportunity due to the inability to provide safe surgery in stressful and anxious patient groups
Low hospital costs	Hypercapnia
Short recovery time	Cough
Short anaesthesia time
Fewer respiratory complications
Maintaining communication with the patient
More physiological (no V/Q deterioration)

A-VATS – awake video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, V/Q – pulmonary ventilation and perfusion.