A newly released practice alert from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) aims to standardize how nurses care for patients undergoing prone positioning therapy for extended periods ...

Last fall I admitted a 41-year-old patient with hypoxic respiratory failure to the intensive care unit. He rapidly declined, and I consulted the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) service at ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Prone positioning significantly reduced the need for intubation among nonintubated adults with ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Awake prone positioning is a well-established non-pharmacological intervention to improve lung oxygenation. During the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, this process has received ...

Prone positioning of infants on high-flow nasal cannula oxygen support for bronchiolitis didn't significantly reduce risk of progression to needing positive pressure ventilation, a large randomized ...