gatch

present singular third person gatches · participle present gatching · participle past gatched · past gatched

1. transitivemedicineTo arrange (a patient's bed) so that its sections bend at the joints, to assist blood flow etc.

   Answer 1 is incorrect because gatching the bed in the area of the knees reduces venous return.

   2012, Sally L. Lagerquist, Davis's NCLEX-RN® Success, page 571

   1 more example

   If the bed is to be gatched, the board must be hinged, or two or more boards must be used with breaks correctly placed.

   1961, Kathleen Newton Shafer, Medical-surgical Nursing, page 783

1. uncountableA form of plaster of Paris formerly used in Persia.

plural Gatches

1. A surname.