If, however, the patient could not keep still because of the intensity of pain or because he is an infant or a child, and so on, he should be held in a fixed po

If, however, the patient could not keep still because of the intensity of pain or because he is an infant or a child, and so on, he should be held in a fixed position by somebody else. They still do this with children -- for example: strap them down, give local anesthesia, apply stitches to a cut that needs to be stitched up.