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 ...

Prone positioning does not significantly reduce the risk of intubation in hospitalized patients experiencing acute hypoxemic respiratory failure from COVID-19, according to the COVI-PRONE trial.

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 ...

Placing hospitalized COVID-19 patients who are on oxygen in a facedown position significantly improves their chance of survival, a large-scale review has found. The study of non-intubated patients, ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome, 44.2% in prone position and 44% in supine position ...

A large multicenter, randomized clinical trial revealed no difference in the risk of endotracheal intubation requirement at 30 days between awake prone positioning and standard positioning for ...

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 ...

On Friday, Dr. Mangala Narasimhan received an urgent call. A man in his 40s with Covid-19 was in a dire situation, and her colleague wanted her to come the intensive care unit at Long Island Jewish ...