Prone positioning in conscious patients on medical wards: A review of the evidence and its relevance to patients with COVID-19 infection
Thomas Chad and Caroline Sampson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmed.2020-0179
Clin Med July 2020 Thomas Chad
AUniversity Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK;
Roles: acute care common stem/anaesthetics core trainee-1 doctor
Caroline Sampson
BUniversity Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
Roles: consultant in critical care, anaesthesia and adult extra corporeal membrane oxygenation and deputy director for adult extra corporeal membrane oxygenation
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vol. 20 no. 4 e97-e103
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- Published online July 16, 2020.
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- Thomas Chad, acute care common stem/anaesthetics core trainee-1 doctorA⇑ and
- Caroline Sampson, consultant in critical care, anaesthesia and adult extra corporeal membrane oxygenation and deputy director for adult extra corporeal membrane oxygenationB
- AUniversity Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK;
- BUniversity Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
- Address for correspondence: Dr Thomas Chad, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Infirmary Square, Leicester LE1 5WW, UK. Email: tom.chad{at}doctors.org.uk
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Prone positioning in conscious patients on medical wards: A review of the evidence and its relevance to patients with COVID-19 infection
Thomas Chad, Caroline Sampson
Clinical Medicine Jul 2020, 20 (4) e97-e103; DOI: 10.7861/clinmed.2020-0179
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- Evidence for the prone position in conscious, non-ventilated COVID-19 patients
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