In ARDS patients, the change from supine to prone position generates a more even
distribution of the gas–tissue ratios along the dependent–nondependent axis and a more …

Background The joint committee of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care
Medicine/Japanese Respiratory Society/Japanese Society of Respiratory Care Medicine on …

Abstract The German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI)
commissioneda revision of the S2 guidelines on “positioning therapy for prophylaxis or …

Currently, no clinical studies have compared the inspiratory and expiratory volumes of
unilateral lung or of each lobe among supine, standing, and sitting positions. In this …

The use of prone position (PP) during invasive mechanical ventilation was first reported
more than 45 years ago as a mean to improve oxygenation in patients with acute hypoxemic …

OBJECTIVES: Head-elevated body positioning, a default clinical practice, predictably
increases end-expiratory transpulmonary pressure and aerated lung volume. In acute …

In früheren multizentrischen Studien (Übersicht in:[1, 2, 5, 96, 98, 99]) führte die tägliche
Bauchlagerung (ca. 8 h für 5 bis 10 Tage) bei Patienten mit einem mäßigen bis moderaten …

Introduction Adopting the 45° semirecumbent position in mechanically ventilated critically ill
patients is recommended, as it has been shown to reduce the incidence of ventilator …

Objective: Since publication of the Respiratory Management of Acute Lung Injury and Acute
Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARMA) trial in 2000, use of tidal volume (VT) less than or …

Background: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an increasingly common acute
respiratory failure that seriously threaten people's health. ARDS has a case fatality rate of up …