Local anaesthetic thoracoscopy: British Thoracic Society pleural disease guideline 2010.

The article presents the 2010 British Thoracic Society pleural disease guidelines on local anaesthetic thorascoscopy. Also called local anaesthetic thorascopy, medical thorascopy or pleuroscopy, thorascopy under local anaesthetic sedation is increasingly being conducted by chest doctors in Great Britain. These guidelines emphasize the ned for a local anaesthetic thorascoscopy service in Great Britain.