 Patient Positioning
"Patient Positioning" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Moving a patient into a specific position or POSTURE to facilitate examination, surgery, or for therapeutic purposes.
| Descriptor ID |
D056888
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.760.670 N02.421.585.700
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| Concept/Terms |
Patient Positioning- Patient Positioning
- Patient Positionings
- Positioning, Patient
- Positionings, Patient
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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2011 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2012 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2013 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Patient Positioning" by people in Profiles.
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Sorokin I, Cadeddu JA. Robotic Laparoendoscopic Single Site: Pyeloplasty and Nephrectomy Chapter. J Endourol. 2018 05; 32(S1):S88-S92.
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Zhu X, Evans KN, El-Gharbawy A, Lee JY, Brooker JE, Jabbour N, Tyler-Kabara EC, Madan-Khertarpal S, Losee JE, Goldstein JA. Cervical Spine Injury From Unrecognized Craniocervical Instability in Severe Pierre Robin Sequence Associated With Skeletal Dysplasia. Cleft Palate Craniofac J. 2018 05; 55(5):773-777.
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Sorokin I, Chamarthy M, Cadeddu JA. How I do it: percutaneous radiofrequency ablation (RFA). Can J Urol. 2017 Feb; 24(1):8679-8683.
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Gombos EC, Jayender J, Richman DM, Caragacianu DL, Mallory MA, Jolesz FA, Golshan M. Intraoperative Supine Breast MR Imaging to Quantify Tumor Deformation and Detection of Residual Breast Cancer: Preliminary Results. Radiology. 2016 Dec; 281(3):720-729.
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Nason KS. Acute Intraoperative Pulmonary Aspiration. Thorac Surg Clin. 2015 Aug; 25(3):301-7.
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Gamboa A, Paranjape SY, Black BK, Arnold AC, Figueroa R, Okamoto LE, Nwazue VC, Diedrich A, Plummer WD, Dupont WD, Robertson D, Raj SR. Inspiratory resistance improves postural tachycardia: a randomized study. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2015 Jun; 8(3):651-8.
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Taylor S, Litmanovich DE, Shahrzad M, Bankier AA, Gevenois PA, Tack D. Organ-based tube current modulation: are women's breasts positioned in the reduced-dose zone? Radiology. 2015 Jan; 274(1):260-6.
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King MA, Dey J, Johnson K, Dasari P, Mukherjee JM, McNamara JE, Konik A, Lindsay C, Zheng S, Coughlin D. Use of MRI to assess the prediction of heart motion with gross body motion in myocardial perfusion imaging by stereotracking of markers on the body surface. Med Phys. 2013 Nov; 40(11):112504.
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Nguyen C, Kettler MD, Swirsky ME, Miller VI, Scott C, Krause R, Hadro JA. Male breast disease: pictorial review with radiologic-pathologic correlation. Radiographics. 2013 May; 33(3):763-79.
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Hughes S, Leary A, Zweizig S, Cain J. Surgery in elderly people: preoperative, operative and postoperative care to assist healing. Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol. 2013 Oct; 27(5):753-65.
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