In ARDS patients, the change from supine to prone position generates a more even
distribution of the gas–tissue ratios along the dependent–nondependent axis and a more …

Importance Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a life-threatening form of
respiratory failure that affects approximately 200 000 patients each year in the United States …

Even though it can meet the ARDS Berlin definition [1, 2], the COVID-19 pneumonia is a
specific disease with peculiar phenotypes. Its main characteristic is the dissociation between …

Background Limited data are available on the use of prone position in intubated, invasively
ventilated patients with Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19). Aim of this study is to …

What started as a cluster of patients with a mysterious respiratory illness in Wuhan, China, in
December 2019, was later determined to be coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The …

Acute lung injury is characterized by acute respiratory insufficiency with tachypnea, cyanosis
refractory to oxygen, decreased lung compliance, and diffuse alveolar infiltrates on chest X …

Background The effect of awake prone positioning on intubation rates is not established.
The aim of this trial was to investigate if a protocol for awake prone positioning reduces the …

Prone Positioning in Awake, Nonintubated Patients With COVID-19 Hypoxemic Respiratory
Failure | Critical Care Medicine | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network [Skip to Navigation] …

Prone positioning was first proposed in the 1970s as a method to improve gas exchange in
ARDS. Subsequent observations of dramatic improvement in oxygenation with simple …

The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a common cause of respiratory failure in
critically ill patients and is defined by the acute onset of noncardiogenic pulmonary oedema …