It’s one of the lessons from the hospital frontlines and it was reinforced during the recent coronavirus pandemic— positioning matters. A significant percentage of pneumonia patients who were placed ...

Upright radiotherapy Leo Cancer Care’s Eve patient positioning system is installed at the Centre Léon Bérard in Lyon, France. The system uses standard immobilization devices to ensure patient ...

March 7, 2011 (Orlando, Florida) — Editor's note: For emergency department physicians, the challenge of managing patients who present with severe brain injury is one of the most daunting. Positioning ...

Increasing health literacy, quality of patient-physician relationships, and ultimately patient health and wellness outcomes is the goal of Wills Robbins, Founder and CEO of Constant Media. Constant ...

During the first 24 hours after a stroke, attention to detail -- such as hospital bed positioning -- is critical to patient outcomes. Most strokes are caused by blood clots that block blood flow to ...

As you recover from open-heart surgery -- in the hospital and then at home -- sleeping soundly can be a challenge. It's important to find a comfortable sleep position that works for you. Also, knowing ...

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill.-- September 10, 2015--Having patients lie on their left side while the right side of their colon is being examined can result in more polyps being found, thus increasing the ...

Becoming a standardized patient requires a good memory, and excellent listening skills and concentration while being trained, interviewed and examined. Prior acting experience is not required.

Hospital beds for stroke patients are typically elevated at the head, however, a flat head position before surgical removal of a blood clot in the brain (thrombectomy) may lead to better outcomes.