Objective Objective To explore the nursing experiments of using health education for spontaneous pneumatothorax patients who have treated by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery(VATS).Methods Divided 100 patients spontaneous pneumatothorax into 2 groups randomly,one was observation group and accepted health education,the other was control group and no health education.Follow up 2 groups by telephone and compare the satisfactory rate of nursing. Results The satisfactory rate of nursing in observation group and control group were 93.8% and 72.9% respectively,the difference was significant(P