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Physiology of postureOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The term ”surgical posture” denotes the body position in which the patient is placed.during an operation. It goes without saying that an ideal posture is one which gives the surgeon maximum acceptable access to his anatomic target and at the same time causes no physical injury or great physiological dysfunction to the patent .The oldest carefully detailed descriptions of the adverse effects of surgical postures may be those of Slocum, Allen and associates at the University of Taxes. They related malposition to cirulatory and respiratory distress in 194? and to neurovascular’ complications in 1946. Subsequent reviwes.by Henschel et al., in 1957. Little in I960, Lincoln in 1961 and Courington in 1968 have assembled and further clarified information on this subject.In this study we gave a fair idea about problems that are likely to be encountered on setting a patient in different postures and how to deal with such problems. Such problems comprise: stabilisation of the patient, physical trauma as well as the physiological disturbances in such positions. The positions discussed are those approved and most widely used by most surgeons .