When you hear the word “labor,” you may think about lying in a hospital bed, having contractions ... you want the baby to come out.” Yet a supine (lying down) position for birth is typically ...

While it may sound complicated, supine simply means “lying on the back or with the face upward,” like when you lie in bed on your back and look up at the ceiling. It’s common to be in the ...

Sliding patients up the bed is one of the most common patient-handling manoeuvres ... is resuscitation officer/clinical skills lead; both at Manor Hospital, Walsall, West Midlands. It is paramount ...

In this study we had a selective group of patients who had supine reflux ... in sleeping on the bed with the head end elevated on blocks. These patients were in hospital for 2 days and their ...

Too many patients, not enough beds. Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that the national hospital occupancy rate has gone up since the start of the ...