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

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 …

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 …

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

Prone position (PP) ventilation is an attractive and quite simple tool used for roughly 30
years to improve oxygenation in patients with acute lung injury (ALI)/acute respiratory …

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 …

The emergence of computed tomography imaging more than 25 years ago led to
characterization of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) as areas of relatively normal …

Introduction: Prone position has been used since the 1970s as a rescue therapy to treat
severe hypoxemia in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Despite …

In the last few years prone positioning has been used increasingly in the treatment of
patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and this manoeuvre is now …

As early as 1974, Brian advocated the prone position for ventilated patients [5]. He
suggested that this position might enhance ventilation of the dorsal parts of the lungs …