Abstract
Awake proning is being used as an adjunct to the current therapies for patients with cooronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) related hypoxemic respiratory failure [...]
Highlights
Awake proning is being used as an adjunct to the current therapies for patients with cooronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) related hypoxemic respiratory failure
Most studies have described patients on continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), high flow nasal cannula as well as standard oxygen therapies in different proportions, the response of prone positioning may likely be different among these as the application of positive end-expiratory pressure may lead to better recruitment, which is one of the major mechanism of the effect of prone positioning
The one thing missing in the analysis in this study was whether the number of patients receiving continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and conventional oxygen therapy was similar between the groups
Summary
Awake proning is being used as an adjunct to the current therapies for patients with cooronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) related hypoxemic respiratory failure. There is no universally accepted protocol, there is emerging data on the use of awake prone positioning [1, 2].
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