Prone Position

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Narrative Reviews

Prone Position

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Sections

General | Monitoring & Investigations | Therapies

General

General

Rampon. Prone Positioning for Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure and ARDS. A Review. Chest 2023;163(2):332-340
Papazian. Prone position in mechanically ventilated patients. Intensive Care Med 2022;48(8):1062-1065

Duration

Walter. Extended prone positioning for intubated ARDS: a review. Crit Care 2023;27:264

External Compression

Marini. Improving lung compliance by external compression of the chest wall. Crit Care 2021;25(1):264

Awake Prone Positioning

Perez. Awake prone positioning for patients with COVID-19-induced acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. J Intensive Med 2022;2(4):233-240

Background

Pathophysiology

Berg. Therapeutic benefits of proning to improve pulmonary gas exchange in severe respiratory failure: focus on fundamentals of physiology. Exp Physiol 2022;107(7):759-770

Haemodynamic Effects

Conditions

ARDS

Ehrmann. Prone positioning in ARDS. Intensive Care Med 2026;epublished July 20th

COVID-19

ECMO

Roca. To prone or not to prone ARDS patients on ECMO. Crit Care 2021;25(1):315

Complications

Complication

Monitoring & Investigations

General

Therapies

ECMO

Zhang. Prone positioning in ARDS patients supported with VV ECMO, what we should explore? J Intensive Care 2022;10(1):46

Last updated July 20th, 2026