Once the bed is flat, I move to the head of the bed, and
ask the patient to lift their head.
Remove the pillow and place it down near their feet.
If you rest your head back, we can see that there's a gap here between the top of
patient's head, and the top of the headrest.
We need to close that gap.
What I'm going to have you do, is move up toward the top of the bed.
If you bend your knees and push, scoot up to the top, that's perfect.
Now the crown of the head is even with the top of the bed and we're in good position.
The next thing I want to look at though, is how is the position of the head.
And as you can see here, the brow is actually lower than the cheek.
The head is actually kind of tilted back like this.
That's not ideal for surgery.
What we want to do, is have a line between the brow and the cheek be basically
parallel with the ground, so that we have a nice even surface for surgery.
Fortunately, this head rest is adjustable.