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.

Prone positioning improves oxygenation and decreases mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). 1 This print supplement to the video reviews the procedure for placing ...

Positioning patients with large vessel ischemic (clot-caused) stroke with their heads flat (0-degrees) before surgery to remove the blood clot resulted in significant improvements in neurological ...

Awake prone positioning reduced need for intubation in selected patients with severe COVID-19, a meta-analysis showed. In pooled randomized controlled trials (RCTs), awake prone 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 ...

PHOENIX, AZ—Placing patients with an acute ischemic stroke caused by a large-vessel occlusion (LVO) flat on their bed as they await mechanical thrombectomy is a simple way to improve short-term ...