Modified Stryker frame for intraoperative positioning of the patient with burns.
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.
Sheridan
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Surgical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Hurley
J
J
Lynch
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L
Balmer
J
J
Ryan
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CM
Bondoc
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Quinby
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WC
Tompkins
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Burke
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JF
D002056:Burns / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007430:Intraoperative Care; D017770:Lifting; D009873:Operating Rooms; D011187:Posture; D013523:Surgical Equipment