Boston—Is there any benefit to the common practice of tilting women during cesarean delivery? A randomized clinical trial suggests maybe not.
“Not tilting the surgical table does not impair neonatal acid–base status compared to the tilt position when baseline systolic blood pressure is maintained with phenylephrine infusion,” said Allison Lee, MD, assistant professor of anesthesiology at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, in New York City.