Silicon Gel Pads: An Essential Tool for Maintaining Spinal Alignment in Surgery
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Since the operating room is a rather complex environment, ensuring patient safety as well as comfort becomes the main priority. Among the critical things that contribute to this goal includes, right positioning of the patients particularly when the patients are to assume positions for long periods such as during their surgeries. And this is where silicon gel pads, especially OT table positioning gel pads, come in handy. They do more than offer cushioning to the body but also serve to align the spine, preventing surgical repercussions. The Role of Silicon Gel Pads in Spinal Alignment Silicon gel pads are used on patients in many operations to keep alignment of the spine as it is useful in operations wherein the patient is positioned either in prone or supine position. This makes silicon to be a preferable material that can prevent pressure on sensitive areas like the spine famously known as the backbone of the body. This shows that when the patient is in the operating table during...