The ideal patient positioning in spine surgery: a preventive strategy
Patient positioning on the surgical table is a critical step in every spine surgery. The most common surgical positions in spine surgery are supine, prone and lateral decubitus. There are countless lesions that can occur during spine surgery due to patient mispositioning. Ulnar nerve and brachia...
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| author | Paulo Diogo Cunha Tiago P Barbosa Guilherme Correia Rafaela Silva Nuno Cruz Oliveira Pedro Varanda Bruno Direito-Santos |
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| description | Patient positioning on the surgical table is a critical step in every spine surgery. The most common surgical positions in spine surgery are supine, prone and lateral decubitus.
There are countless lesions that can occur during spine surgery due to patient mispositioning. Ulnar nerve and brachial plexus injuries are the most common nerve lesions seen in malpositioned patients. Devastating complications due to increased intraocular pressure or excessive abdominal pressure can also occur in prone decubitus and are real concerns that the surgical team must be aware of.
All members of the surgical team (including surgeons, anesthesiologists and nurses) should know how to correctly position the patient, identify possible positioning errors and know how to avoid them in order to prevent postoperative morbidity.
This work pretends to do a review of the most common positions during spine surgery, alert to errors that can happen during the procedure and how to avoid them. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a8eeb804ace3474782fb20fc1e1759b52023-02-25T09:08:43ZengBioscientificaEFORT Open Reviews2058-52412023-02-0182110https://doi.org/10.1530/EOR-22-0135The ideal patient positioning in spine surgery: a preventive strategyPaulo Diogo Cunha0Tiago P Barbosa1Guilherme Correia2Rafaela Silva3Nuno Cruz Oliveira4Pedro Varanda5Bruno Direito-Santos6Orthopedic Surgery Department, Hospital de Braga, PortugalOrthopedic Surgery Department, Hospital de Braga, PortugalOrthopedic Surgery Department, Hospital de Braga, PortugalAnesthesiology Department, Hospital de Braga, PortugalOrthopedic Surgery Department, Hospital de Braga, PortugalOrthopedic Surgery Department, Hospital de Braga, Portugal; Life and Health Science Research Institute, University of Minho, PortugalOrthopedic Surgery Department, Hospital de Braga, Portugal; Life and Health Science Research Institute, University of Minho, Portugal Patient positioning on the surgical table is a critical step in every spine surgery. The most common surgical positions in spine surgery are supine, prone and lateral decubitus. There are countless lesions that can occur during spine surgery due to patient mispositioning. Ulnar nerve and brachial plexus injuries are the most common nerve lesions seen in malpositioned patients. Devastating complications due to increased intraocular pressure or excessive abdominal pressure can also occur in prone decubitus and are real concerns that the surgical team must be aware of. All members of the surgical team (including surgeons, anesthesiologists and nurses) should know how to correctly position the patient, identify possible positioning errors and know how to avoid them in order to prevent postoperative morbidity. This work pretends to do a review of the most common positions during spine surgery, alert to errors that can happen during the procedure and how to avoid them.https://eor.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/eor/8/2/EOR-22-0135.xmlspine surgerypatient positioningperioperative visual losscompressive neuropathies |
| spellingShingle | Paulo Diogo Cunha Tiago P Barbosa Guilherme Correia Rafaela Silva Nuno Cruz Oliveira Pedro Varanda Bruno Direito-Santos The ideal patient positioning in spine surgery: a preventive strategy EFORT Open Reviews spine surgery patient positioning perioperative visual loss compressive neuropathies |
| title | The ideal patient positioning in spine surgery: a preventive strategy |
| title_full | The ideal patient positioning in spine surgery: a preventive strategy |
| title_fullStr | The ideal patient positioning in spine surgery: a preventive strategy |
| title_full_unstemmed | The ideal patient positioning in spine surgery: a preventive strategy |
| title_short | The ideal patient positioning in spine surgery: a preventive strategy |
| title_sort | ideal patient positioning in spine surgery a preventive strategy |
| topic | spine surgery patient positioning perioperative visual loss compressive neuropathies |
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