Awake proning prevented intubation and death from Covid-19 pneumonia*
* in China.
Prolonged periods in the chest-down (prone) position improve lung ventilation-perfusion matching in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)—i.e., hypoxemic respiratory failure usually caused by pneumonia.
In mechanically ventilated patients, prolonged prone positioning seems to reduce ventilator-induced lung injury and mortality from ARD…
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