Prone Positioning Decreases Inhomogeneity and Improves Dorsal Compliance in Invasively Ventilated Spontaneously Breathing COVID-19 Patients-A Study Using Electrical Impedance Tomography.
Charalampos PierrakosFleur L I M van der VenMarry R SmitLaura A HagensFrederique PaulusMarcus J SchultzLieuwe D J BosPublished in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)
in this cohort of spontaneously breathing invasively ventilated COVID-19 patients, prone positioning decreased inhomogeneity, increased lung volumes, and improved dorsal compliance.