作者
Anna Coppo, Giacomo Bellani, Dario Winterton, Michela Di Pierro, Alessandro Soria, Paola Faverio, Matteo Cairo, Silvia Mori, Grazia Messinesi, Ernesto Contro, Paolo Bonfanti, Annalisa Benini, Maria Grazia Valsecchi, Laura Antolini, Giuseppe Foti
发表日期
2020/8/1
期刊
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
卷号
8
期号
8
页码范围
765-774
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging advanced health systems, which are dealing with an overwhelming number of patients in need of intensive care for respiratory failure, often requiring intubation. Prone positioning in intubated patients is known to reduce mortality in moderate-to-severe acute respiratory distress syndrome. We aimed to investigate feasibility and effect on gas exchange of prone positioning in awake, non-intubated patients with COVID-19-related pneumonia.
Methods
In this prospective, feasibility, cohort study, patients aged 18–75 years with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19-related pneumonia receiving supplemental oxygen or non-invasive continuous positive airway pressure were recruited from San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy. We collected baseline data on demographics, anthropometrics, arterial blood gas, and ventilation parameters. After baseline data collection, patients …
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