Inflatable Indian travel pillow as a pneumatic patient jack

The Indian travel pillow readily available in the market has been utilized as a patient jack in the operation theatre. This has been used to raise the shoulders of an anaesthetized patient for surgery in the head and neck region and a set of two pillows have been used to prop-up a prone anaesthetize...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gopalakrishna A, Agrawal Karoon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2006-01-01
Series:Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery
Subjects:
Online Access:http://www.ijps.org/article.asp?issn=0970-0358;year=2006;volume=39;issue=1;spage=88;epage=90;aulast=Gopalakrishna