Levelling up peri‐operative practice: measuring operating table tilt
Abstract
Levelling up peri-operative practice: measuring operating table tilt I read with interest the study by Whitby et al. describing the variability with which peri-operative teams interpret commonly used verbal descriptors for longitudinal patient movement [1].Their findings highlight how imprecision in everyday communication can translate into clinically meaningful variation in patient positioning.While this work focuses on linear displacement, it raises a broader question about other positioning manoeuvres that are equally ubiquitous, physiologically consequential and vulnerable to subjective execution, most notably operating table tilt.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Intraoperative Neuromonitoring and Anesthetic Effects
Anesthesia and Pain Management
Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Anaesthesia
- Volume
- 81
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1028–1029
- Publication date
- 5 February 2026
- Language
- EN