Lying facedown on your stomach is described as being in the prone position. This position is often used to help patients who are experiencing respiratory distress. Since the coronavirus pandemic began ...

Prone positioning has been widely adopted into standard practice for patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome who are mechanically ventilated based on high-quality evidence. Prone ...

Shortly after acute respiratory distress syndrome was first described, it was soon realized that mechanical ventilation, aside from being essential for the treatment of the disease, can also harm the ...

Prone positioning improves oxygenation and decreases mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). 1 This print supplement to the video reviews the procedure for placing ...

Early application of prone positioning did not help patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) -- mostly from COVID -- get off venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ...

—These investigators identified predictors of 60-day survival in patients with influenza pneumonia-related ARDS receiving prone positioning during mechanical ventilation. Reviewed by Ware Kuschner, MD ...

India's healthcare infrastructure is facing a major downer due to the Coronavirus pandemic crisis. The breakdown in hospitals has led to a rise in the number of daily death cases in the whole country.

The mentions of the year 2020 would be all about coronavirus in history. This is one of the biggest pandemics in the world so far and scientists worldwide are trying to get hold of it. Until the ...

Patients with breast cancer who underwent CT scans in the prone position experienced significantly less radiation exposure to their hearts and lungs than patients who were in the supine position, ...