During the first 24 hours after a stroke, attention to detail -- such as hospital bed positioning -- is critical to patient outcomes. Most strokes are caused by blood clots that block blood flow to ...

Many patients with a cerebral injury cannot move independently. These patients have to be repositioned at regular intervals for a long period of time in order to prevent pressure ulcers that may ...

March 7, 2011 (Orlando, Florida) — Editor's note: For emergency department physicians, the challenge of managing patients who present with severe brain injury is one of the most daunting. Positioning ...

"I have worked in various areas of the healthcare field, and I thought there could be a better way to move patients and transfer them towards the head of the bed," said an inventor, from Buffalo, N.Y.

Hospital beds for stroke patients are typically elevated at the head, however, a flat head position before surgical removal of a blood clot in the brain (thrombectomy) may lead to better outcomes.

Positioning patients with large vessel ischemic (clot-caused) stroke with their heads flat (0-degrees) before surgery to remove the blood clot resulted in significant improvements in neurological ...

It’s one of the lessons from the hospital frontlines and it was reinforced during the recent coronavirus pandemic— positioning matters. A significant percentage of pneumonia patients who were placed ...

While vitrectomy is typically performed with the patient supine, technical difficulties arise in patients who are unable to lie flat. Modified equipment and patient positioning have been described for ...