150 Tilting the tables: a discussion of the evidence for routine table tilt during elective caesarean

Join us as Declan and Roger discuss the evidence for routine table tilt during elective caesarean section.   Has this changed your practice? What is your opinion on this topic? We’d love to read your emails.  As mentioned in the episode we would love to do a future episode on Q&A so if you have any questions on any topic you would like us to tackle please send them in! Send your comments / questions to: obsgynaecritcare@gmail.com References Hughes EJ, Price AN, McCabe L, Hiscocks S, Waite L, Green E, Hutter J, Pegoretti K, Cordero‐Grande L, Edwards AD, Hajnal JV. The effect of maternal position on venous return for pregnant women during MRI. NMR in Biomedicine . 2021 Apr;34(4):e4475. Couper S, Clark A, Thompson JM, Flouri D, Aughwane R, David AL, Melbourne A, Mirjalili A, Stone PR. The effects of maternal position, in late gestation pregnancy, on placental blood flow and oxygenation: an MRI study . The Journal of physiology. 2021 Mar;599(6):1901-15. Higuchi H, Takagi S, Zhang K, Furui I, Ozaki M. Effect of lateral tilt angle on the volume of the abdominal aorta and inferior vena cava in pregnant and nonpregnant women determined by magnetic resonance imaging. Anesthesiology . 2015;122(2):286-293. Fujita N, Higuchi H, Sakuma S, Takagi S, Latif MA, Ozaki M. Effect of right-lateral versus left-lateral tilt position on compression of the inferior vena cava in pregnant women determined by magnetic resonance imaging. Anesthesia & Analgesia . 2019 Jun 1;128(6):1217-22. Aust H, Koehler S, Kuehnert M, Werdehausen R, Schleppers A, Reese PC, Reyher C. Guideline-recommended 15° left lateral table tilt during cesarean section in regional anesthesia—practical aspects: an observational study. Int J Obstet Anesth . 2016 Aug;27:47-53. Crawford JS, Burton M, Davies P. Time and lateral tilt at Caesarean section. Br J Anaesth. 1972 May;44(5):477-84. Lee AJ, Landau R, Mattingly JL, Meenan MM, Corradini B, Wang S, Goodman SR, Smiley RM. Left lateral table tilt for elective cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia has no effect on neonatal acid–base status: a randomized controlled trial. Anesthesiology . 2017;127(2):241‑249. Jackson KL, Smiley RM, Lee AJ. Neonatal acid-base status before and after discontinuing routine left uterine displacement for elective cesarean delivery: a retrospective cohort study (2014–2017 ). Int J Obstet Anesth . 2025;62:104350. You need to add a widget, row, or prebuilt layout before you’ll see anything here. 🙂

You can listen to 150 Tilting the tables: a discussion of the evidence for routine table tilt during elective caesarean online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

150 Tilting the tables: a discussion of the evidence for routine table tilt during elective caesarean is an episode from Obsgynaecritcare by Roger Browning - Anaesthetist.

This episode is 46:14 long.

This episode was published on Mar 16, 2026.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Obsgynaecritcare when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.