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Archive > August, 2003 Vol. IV, No. 8

7 Patient Positioning Strategies

How to provide surgical access, keep patients comfortable and prevent injuries.

Mark Warner, MD

When patients and their families think about risks associated with their surgeries, they usually think about unexpected systemic failures, post-operative infections or other complications that may occur at the surgical site, and anesthesia problems. Fortunately, these risks generally are quite small, and improvements in analgesic medications and techniques have remarkably decreased the problems associated with significant post-operative pain.

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