Operating Tables
Last modified: 24 September 2021, 4:16:35 PM AEST
Gems1 / 5
- caution hypotension with all head up / hips flexed
- may require significant amount of vasopressor
- consider NAd for ⬆inotropy
Andrews2 / 5
- blue cushions
- manual foot pump for up / down
- bent table is bent to allow hip flexion, knee flexion
- lowest venous pressure
- worst for POVL
- best operating conditions
- requires metaraminol infusion to maintain MAP
- keep all switches at "off"
- select the switch for up/down, then pump pedal
Jackson table3 / 5
- flat table
- best for minimising POVL
- if head is in pins, will require a "Jackson flip"
- transfer supine onto table
- apply base
- flip
Wilson table4 / 5
- like the Harbour Bridge
- opens up interspinous spaces
- ⬆venous pressure, ⬆abdominal pressure
Wilfred frame5 / 5
- invented at RNSH
- Wil = head OA
- Fred = engineering department
- leaves the head free (pins)
- hip flexed (like Andrews table)
- leaves abdomen open (like Jackson table)