Research in brief: Prone positioning in COVID-19: What's the evidence Page 1 © Royal
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SARS-CoV-2 virus (Covid-19) is an infectious disease where most cases have mild
symptoms, while few have pneumonia with respiratory failure. Because prone positioning …

Rationale: The adoption of prone positioning for patients with acute respiratory distress
syndrome (ARDS) has historically been poor. However, in mechanically ventilated patients …

We describe the incidence and practice of prone positioning and determined the association
of use of prone positioning with outcomes in invasively ventilated patients with acute …

Evidence mainly from high income countries suggests that lying in the prone position may
be beneficial in patients with COVID-19 even if they are not receiving invasive ventilation …

COVID-19 in 15 medical wards at 12 hospitals. Patients were randomly assigned to either
the prone positioning group or the usual care group. In the prone positioning group, patients …

Introduction Prone position is known to improve mortality in patients with acute respiratory
distress syndrome (ARDS). The impact of prone position in critically ill patients with …

Importance Awake prone positioning may improve hypoxemia among patients with COVID-
19, but whether it is associated with improved clinical outcomes remains unknown. Objective …

Background Prone position has already been demonstrated to improve survival in non-
COVID acute respiratory distress syndrome and has been widely performed in COVID-19 …

Background: Awake prone positioning (APP) has been widely used in non-intubated COVID-
19 patients during the pandemic. However, high-quality evidence to support its use in …