Sustained oxygenation improvement after first prone positioning is associated with liberation from mechanical ventilation and mortality in critically ill COVID-19 patients: a cohort study

Abstract Background Prone positioning (PP) has been used to improve oxygenation in patients affected by the SARS-CoV-2 disease (COVID-19). Several mechanisms, including lung recruitment and better lung ventilation/perfusion matching, make a relevant rational for using PP. However, not all patients m...

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Published in:	Annals of Intensive Care
Main Authors:	Gaetano Scaramuzzo, Lorenzo Gamberini, Tommaso Tonetti, Gianluca Zani, Irene Ottaviani, Carlo Alberto Mazzoli, Chiara Capozzi, Emanuela Giampalma, Maria Letizia Bacchi Reggiani, Elisabetta Bertellini, Andrea Castelli, Irene Cavalli, Davide Colombo, Federico Crimaldi, Federica Damiani, Maurizio Fusari, Emiliano Gamberini, Giovanni Gordini, Cristiana Laici, Maria Concetta Lanza, Mirco Leo, Andrea Marudi, Giuseppe Nardi, Raffaella Papa, Antonella Potalivo, Emanuele Russo, Stefania Taddei, Guglielmo Consales, Iacopo Cappellini, Vito Marco Ranieri, Carlo Alberto Volta, Claude Guerin, Savino Spadaro, The ICU-RER COVID-19 Collaboration
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2021-04-01
Subjects:	COVID19 Prone positioning Ventilatory free days ICU
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13613-021-00853-1