title: Modified Stryker frame for intraoperative positioning of the patient with burns.
abstract: Positioning large patients with burns for prone burn procedures can be very difficult, requiring operating room personnel to use a gang-lift technique. We have used the upper portion of a Stryker frame mounted to a standard operating room table base in more than 200 burn procedures in adults to move patients from the supine to the prone position, and back, without complication.
authors.affiliation: Surgical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Sheridan
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hurley
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lynch
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Balmer
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Ryan
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Bondoc
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Quinby
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Tompkins
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Burke
mesh_terms: D002056:Burns / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007430:Intraoperative Care; D017770:Lifting; D009873:Operating Rooms; D011187:Posture; D013523:Surgical Equipment