OBJECTIVES: It is not known how lung injury progression during mechanical ventilation
modifies pulmonary responses to prone positioning. We compared the effects of prone …

Rationale: Positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) and prone positioning may induce lung
recruitment and affect alveolar dynamics in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) …

In the prone position, computed tomography scan densities redistribute from dorsal to
ventral as the dorsal region tends to reexpand while the ventral zone tends to collapse …

Objective: To evaluate the interaction of recruitment maneuvers and prone positioning on
gas exchange and venous admixture in patients with early extrapulmonary acute respiratory …

Background Prone ventilation redistributes lung inflation along the gravitational axis;
however, localized, nongravitational effects of body position are less well characterized. The …

Methods The study was approved by the local ethics committee (2014-AO-1714-43). Forty-
one patients (26 men and 15 women, 66±12 yr old) with moderate to severe ARDS (1) …

Prone positioning has been known for decades to improve oxygenation in animals with
acute lung injury and in most patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The …

The benefits of prone positioning were first theorized in 1974 from studies on the effects of
sedation and paralysis on the diaphragm. 1 However, the deleterious effects of supine …

Objectives: Prone positioning is frequently used during acute respiratory distress syndrome.
However, mechanisms by which it improves oxygenation are poorly understood, as well as …

The article informs about acute respiratory distress syndrome in adults, which is a type of
acute diffuse, inflammatory lung injury leading to increased pulmonary vascular permeability …