Patient Positioning is More Than a Matter of Convenience

Which factors are considered important during spinal procedures?

• Precision — Spinal surgeries require meticulous patient positioning to ensure surgical access.
• Patient safety — Improper positioning can lead to nerve injuries, pressure ulcers, increased intra-abdominal pressure (IAP), and vision loss.¹
• Operational efficiency — Consider how better patient positioning could improve workflows and staff strain.³

Published findings suggest that specialized positioning systems, including the Allen Advance Table (AAT)⁴, may support considerations related to surgical precision², patient safety and operational efficiency in spinal procedures.

Looking at the AAT From Many Angles

The AAT’s features are intended to support patient care protocols, but what do surgeons value? In our whitepaper, Impact of Patient Positioning on Surgical Outcomes and Patient Safety in Spinal Surgeries, we took two approaches to exploring what matters most:

• A systematic review of published literature over the past 10 years, including randomized controlled trials, cohort studies, to assess patient positioning considerations.
• An expert consensus of nine experienced spine surgeons, using a Likert scale to score agreement on predefined parameters related to AAT performance. 

Here’s What the Experts Want You to Know

Combined with a literature review, the expert panel of spinal surgeons brought over 300 years of cumulative experience and shared their candid opinions so you can enhance care quality and patient recovery across diverse clinical settings.

Read Impact of Patient Positioning on Surgical Outcomes and Patient Safety in Spinal Surgeries to see what they had to say.