Fig. 2.

Patient positioning and surgeon positioning during surgery. a, b Position of the patient adjusted from the lateral to supine position depending on the location of the fracture. The patient’s position is fixed using a negative pressure surgical positioning mat. In this figure, the model is a surgeon, and thus, he is wearing blue scrubs. c Surgery performed with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery under one-lung ventilation and performed jointly with an orthopedic surgeon. The left side of this figure is the patient’s head side. An orthopedic surgeon in the center of the figure is fixing the rib fracture with a plate. A surgeon stands to the right of the orthopedic surgeon at the patient’s leg side, observing the surgical procedure from inside the thoracic cavity using a thoracoscope. The monitor on the back left shows an image of the inside of the thoracic cavity as seen through the thoracoscope, and the monitor on the right shows an image of the process of fixing the plate from the chest wall side