Lying facedown on your stomach is described as being in the prone position. This position is often used to help patients who are experiencing respiratory distress. Since the coronavirus pandemic began ...

Early application of prone positioning did not help patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) -- mostly from COVID -- get off venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ...

Awake prone positioning is a well-established non-pharmacological intervention to improve lung oxygenation. During the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, this process has received ...

—These investigators identified predictors of 60-day survival in patients with influenza pneumonia-related ARDS receiving prone positioning during mechanical ventilation. Reviewed by Ware Kuschner, MD ...

For patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) undergoing venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO), prone positioning does not decrease the time to successful ...

Prone positioning improves oxygenation and decreases mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). 1 This print supplement to the video reviews the procedure for placing ...

In nonintubated patients with COVID-related hypoxemic respiratory failure, daily awake prone positioning (APP) for 6 hours showed a more than 90% probability of reducing intubation and/or death ...