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SUBMITTER: Touchon F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8112009 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Touchon François F Trigui Youssef Y Prud'homme Eloi E Lefebvre Laurent L Giraud Alais A Dols Anne-Marie AM Martinez Stéphanie S Bernardi Marie M Begne Camille C Granier Pascal P Chanez Pascal P Forel Jean-Marie JM Papazian Laurent L Elharrar Xavier X
European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society 20210505 160
Prone positioning reduces mortality in the management of intubated patients with moderate-to-severe acute respiratory distress syndrome. It allows improvement in oxygenation by improving ventilation/perfusion ratio mismatching.Because of its positive physiological effects, prone positioning has also been tested in non-intubated, spontaneously breathing patients, or "awake" prone positioning. This review provides an update on awake prone positioning for hypoxaemic respiratory failure, in both cor ...[more]