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- Title
Prone Positioning in Non-Intubated Patients With COVID-19 Outside of the Intensive Care Unit: More Evidence Needed.
- Authors
Ripoll-Gallardo, Alba; Grillenzoni, Luca; Bollon, Jordy; della Corte, Francesco; Barone-Adesi, Francesco
- Abstract
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has brought the Italian National Health System to its knees. The abnormally high influx of patients, together with the limited resources available, has forced clinicians to make unprecedented decisions and provide compassionate treatments for which little or no evidence is yet available. This is the case for the use of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation and continuous airway pressure ventilation, combined with prone position in patients with COVID-19 and acute respiratory distress syndrome treated outside of intensive care units. In our article, we comment on the evidence available, so far, and provide a brief summary of data collected at our health institution in Piedmont, Italy.
- Subjects
ITALY; INTENSIVE care units; COVID-19; CONTINUOUS positive airway pressure; PATIENT positioning; ADULT respiratory distress syndrome
- Publication
Disaster Medicine & Public Health Preparedness, 2020, Vol 14, Issue 4, pe22
- ISSN
1935-7893
- Publication type
Letter
- DOI
10.1017/dmp.2020.267