The Importance of Proper Positioning in the ICU

You can try to get around this by standing at the side of the bed instead of behind the head. If you're going to be doing something like a femoral line, venous or arterial, in a patient who's larger it doesn't have to be all that big of a patient for this to present problems. Patients that are fairly obese can start to present a challenge to procedures just because the abdomen can start to get in the way. You need to try to open up your access.