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ICU Management

Benefits-of-prone-positioning-for-mechanically-ventilated-patients

2018 13 Jun

An article in the journal Anesthesiology describes the effects of prone positioning on oesophageal pressures in mechanically ventilated patients. In healthy patients during general anaesthesia, switching from the supine to the prone position was associated with an increase in end-expiratory transpulmonary (distending) pressure and lung volume,...Read more