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"There's nothing worse than positioning, prepping and draping the patient,
bringing in the C-arm, and then realizing you can't capture what you need and
having to remove the drapes and start the positioning process all over again."
Proper patient positioning is extremely important during trauma cases, so
surgeons have the access they need to repair the broken bone. "If the patient
is improperly placed on the fracture table, you might struggle to fix the bone
properly," says Dr. Archdeacon.
Does Dr. Archdeacon remember a time when proper patient positioning let
him operate on anatomy he would have otherwise had no shot in reaching? "No,
I always remember when I didn't do a good job positioning patients, when I did-
n't get it right," he says. "That always made the surgery harder than it had to be."
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