Body position for preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia for critically ill patients: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.

Diana Patricia Pozuelo-Carrascosa Ana Isabel Cobo-Cuenca Juan Manuel Carmona-Torres José Alberto Laredo Aguilera Esmeralda Santacruz-Salas Vicente Martinez-Vizcaino

Published in: Journal of intensive care (2022)

Cautiously, semi-recumbent seems to be the best position to reduce VAP incidence, hospital length of stay and the duration of MV. Prone is the most effective position to reduce the risk of mortality and the ICU length of stay, but it showed no effect on the VAP incidence. Registration PROSPERO CRD42021247547.

Keyphrases

risk factors
healthcare
emergency department
acute care
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation