lithotomy position

The sampling is done with the patient in lithotomy position.

The woman is placed in the lithotomy position and assists throughout the process by pushing.

The lithotomy position is also known to cause stress on the lower extremities.

Clover's crutch was a device for maintaining the patient in the lithotomy position.

The patient needs general anesthesia or conscious sedation for the duration of the procedure and is in a lithotomy position.

Japanese women predominantly give birth in a semisitting position, though some literature suggest the lying down, lithotomy position, is still used.

TVOR is performed in an operating room or a physician's office, with the (female) subject in the lithotomy position.

Compartment syndrome can also occur following surgery in the Lloyd Davis lithotomy position, where the patient's legs are elevated for prolonged periods.

Patients have reported feeling a loss of control and increased sense of vulnerability when examined in the lithotomy position because they cannot see the area being examined.

The Lloyd Davis lithotomy position can cause extra pressure on the calves and on the intermittent pneumatic compression device worn by the patient.

In the lithotomy position, the mother is lying on her back with her legs up in stirrups and her buttocks close to the edge of the table.

She is perhaps known best for her advocacy of active birth where the woman is free to move during labour, rather than being placed into stirrups or the lithotomy position.

Colposcopy is performed with the patient lying back, legs in stirrups, and buttocks at the lower edge of the table (a position known as the dorsal lithotomy position).

The patient is placed in a special position in a lithotomy operating table, called the lithotomy position (which, curiously, retains this name until present for other unrelated medical procedures).

The lithotomy position involves the positioning of an individual's feet above or at the same level as the hips (often in stirrups), with the perineum positioned at the edge of an examination table.

Since this maneuver requires a significant movement from the standard lithotomy position, it can be substantially more difficult to perform while under epidural anesthesia, but still possible, and can be performed by an experienced delivery room-team.

This position does not use gravity but still holds an advantage over the lithotomy position, as it does not position the vena cava under the uterus, which decreases blood flow to both mother and child.

In addition to the lithotomy position, still commonly used by many obstetricians, positions that are successfully used by midwives and traditional birth-attendants the world over include squatting, standing, kneeling and on all-fours, often in a sequence.

The lithotomy position is a medical term referring to a common position for surgical procedures and medical examinations involving the pelvis and lower abdomen, as well as a common position for childbirth in Western nations.

Some studies have found a significant relationship between prolonged surgical procedures with the patient in the lithotomy position and a circulatory complication known as compartment syndrome, Nerve injury by pressure is also possible, the femoral or peroneal nerve are at risk.

Once the diagnosis has been confirmed by either cystoscopy or a prior urethrography, the patient is placed in the lithotomy position, and the urinary meatus is cleansed with an appropriate surgical cleansing agent (scrub), usually containing Povidone-iodine, then surgically draped.

Birth positions favored in natural childbirth-including squatting, hands and knees, or suspension in water-contrast with the popular lithotomy position of a medicalized birth (woman in hospital bed on her back with legs in stirrups), which has consistently been shown to slow and complicate labor.