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Optimal Positioning for the Adult Intensive Care Patient while Prone

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Abstract

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) remains one of the major challenges faced in the intensive care unit (ICU), in spite of the recent advances in treatment strategies introduced in the last decade. Of these, use of the prone position has attracted particular interest, since turning a patient with ARDS prone often results in marked improvements in gas exchange, and does not require specialized equipment. It is therefore applicable within almost any ICU. Although regarded as a recent advance, the use of prone positioning for this purpose was reported more than 20 years ago [1]. Since then, there have been many published articles and editorials on the subject, and increasing numbers of clinicians have been encouraged to try this approach. There has also been a trend towards keeping patients prone for longer periods of time as recommendations in the literature have changed [2, 3]. Even so, many unanswered questions still remain regarding the hospital and longer term outcome of intensive care patients in whom prone positioning is used for prolonged periods.

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  1. Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Route de Lennik 808, B-1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Jean-Louis Vincent (Head Department of Intensive Care) (Head Department of Intensive Care)

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Barker, M., Beale, R. (2000). Optimal Positioning for the Adult Intensive Care Patient while Prone. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2000. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 2000. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13455-9_23

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