Trendelenburg was a german surgeon who later would recant his recommendation for using his eponymous position for the treatment of shock.
Despite this, every single nursing school still trains their nurses to turn the patient essentially upside down the moment the blood pressure is low.
This does not improve cardiac return, and Ill let
@SC MMA MD ,who has forgotten more about Frank starling law than I'll ever know, expand on the mutitude of reasons that this position is counterproductive for it's usual usage.
Trendelenburg should be relegated to the usage that you see it usually, which is only temporary procedural convenience and needs.
Trendelenburg would live long enough to see his student perform the first pulmonary embolectomy, but he couldn't stop the patients from being turned upside down. This is the stuff that keeps me up at night.