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Effect of awake prone position on diaphragmatic thickening fraction in patients assisted by noninvasive ventilation for hypoxemic acute respiratory failure related to novel coronavirus disease.

Gianmaria CammarotaElisa RossiLeonardo VitaliRachele SimonteTiziano SannipoliFrancesco AnnicielloLuigi VetrugnoElena BignamiCecilia BecattiniSimonetta TesoroDanila AzzolinaAngelo GiacomucciPaolo NavalesiEdoardo De Robertis
Published in: Critical care (London, England) (2021)
In our COVID-19 patients assisted by NIV in ICU, the application of awake prone position improved the oxygenation at the expense of a greater diaphragmatic thickening fraction compared to supine position. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT04904731. Registered on 05/25/2021, retrospectively registered. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04904731 .
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