Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Prone positioning significantly reduced the need for intubation among nonintubated adults with ...

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 ...

Background: Mechanical ventilation in the prone position is used to improve oxygenation in patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. We sought to determine the effect of mechanical ...

Prone positioning has been widely adopted into standard practice for patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome who are mechanically ventilated based on high-quality evidence. Prone ...

The mentions of the year 2020 would be all about coronavirus in history. This is one of the biggest pandemics in the world so far and scientists worldwide are trying to get hold of it. Until the ...

COVID-19 pandemic is throwing many challenges upon us especially the healthcare industry as they are finding every possible way to save lives. Prone position or proning is found to be effective in ...

—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 ...

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 ...

Last fall I admitted a 41-year-old patient with hypoxic respiratory failure to the intensive care unit. He rapidly declined, and I consulted the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) service at ...