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Is there any empirical evidence for having patients on their stomach instead of their back on ventilators? That seems absurdly easy to test.
by arcticfox 7y ago
Is there any empirical evidence for having patients on their stomach instead of their back on ventilators? That seems absurdly easy to test.
- unsrsly 7y agoFor example, Guérin, C., Reignier, J., Richard, J.C., Beuret, P., Gacouin, A., Boulain, T., Mercier, E., Badet, M., Mercat, A., Baudin, O. and Clavel, M., 2013. Prone positioning in severe acute respiratory distress syndrome. New England Journal of Medicine, 368(23), pp.2159-2168.
- gus_massa 7y agoLink https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1214103 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1214103 (just in case https://www.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1214103 https://www.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1214103 )
- freedrock87 7y agoThey appear to be doing it in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfkbv_WQtn0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfkbv_WQtn0
- frostburg 7y agoThat isn't specifically a new thing, it has been shown to work in the past.