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(transitive, medicine) To arrange (a patient's bed) so that its sections bend at the joints, to assist blood flow etc..
If the bed is to be gatched, the board must be hinged, or two or more boards must be used with breaks correctly placed.
Answer 1 is incorrect because gatching the bed in the area of the knees reduces venous return.
Use gatch when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gatch means (transitive, medicine) To arrange (a patient's bed) so that its sections bend at the joints, to assist blood flow etc..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
If the bed is to be gatched, the board must be hinged, or two or more boards must be used with breaks correctly placed.
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