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Table 2 Key inclusion criteria

From: Rationale and design of PASSAT — patients’ satisfaction with local or general anaesthesia in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial with a non-randomised side arm

∙ Indication for VATS for

 1 Partial pleurectomy

 2 Talcum pleurodesis

 3 Implantation of permanent pleural catheter

 4 Hilar or mediastinal lymph node biopsies

 5 Peripheral pulmonary wedge resection

 6 Pericardial effusions

∙ Age ≥ 18 years

∙ Eligibility for LA as well as GA

∙ Informed consent