ENDO GIA™ Stapler With ENDO GIA™ Reload With Tri-Staple™ Technology in a Pulmonary Resection

Exclusion Criteria

• •The subject is pregnant or breastfeeding.
• •The subject is scheduled to undergo sleeve lobectomy, segmentectomy, bi-lobectomy, pneumonectomy or Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS), or lung biopsy for suspected interstitial lung disease.
• •A rib-spreading thoracotomy incision is scheduled to be performed, however the use of an access incision without rib-spreading for specimen removal or to facilitate hilar dissection is allowed. VATS procedures that are converted in the operating room to open procedures are not exclusionary.
• •The subject has received pre-operative chemotherapy or radiation therapy for the lung cancer that will be resected.
• •The subject is scheduled to receive intra-operative brachytherapy.
• •The subject has other severe illnesses that would preclude surgery such as unstable angina or myocardial infarction within 3 months.
• •Re-operative surgery is excluded if it is on the same side as the previous surgery.
• •Investigator determines that participation in the study may jeopardize the safety or welfare of the subject.
• •The subject is unable to comply with the follow-up visit schedule