Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Levelling up peri-operative practice: measuring operating table tilt I read with interest the study by Whitby et al. describing the variability with which peri-operative teams interpret commonly used verbal descriptors for longitudinal patient movement [1].Their findings highlight how imprecision in everyday communication can translate into clinically meaningful variation in patient positioning.While this work focuses on linear displacement, it raises a broader question about other positioning manoeuvres that are equally ubiquitous, physiologically consequential and vulnerable to subjective execution, most notably operating table tilt.
Source: Anaesthesia
DOI: 10.1111/anae.70148
Author: Keta Thakkar
Institution: Nepean Hospital
Language: English
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7127998299