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Ideas and Innovations-Inflatable Indian travel pillow as a pneumatic patient jack Gopalakrishna A, Agrawal Karoon Abstract The Indian travel pillow readily available in the market has been utilized as a patient jack in the operation theatre. This has been used to raise the shoulders of an anaesthetized patient for surgery in the head and neck region and a set of two pillows have been used to prop-up a prone anaesthetized patient. This allows smooth positioning of the patient after intubation without disturbance to the airway with minimal manpower. Keywords Inflatable pillow, patient jack, patient position, pillow

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