Awake proning as an adjunctive therapy for refractory hypoxemia in non-intubated patients with COVID-19 acute respiratory failure: Guidance from an international group of healthcare workers

• Main Authors: Willemke Stilma, Eva Åkerman, Antonio Artigas, Andrew Bentley, Lieuwe D. Bos, Thomas J.C. Bosman, Hendrik De Bruin, Tobias Brummaier, Laura A. Buiteman-Kruizinga, Francesco Carcò, Gregg Chesney, Cindy Chu, Paul Dark, Arjen M. Dondorp, Harm J.H. Gijsbers, Mary Ellen Gilder, Domenico L. Grieco, Rebecca Inglis, John G. Laffey, Giovanni Landoni, Weihua Lu, Lisa M.N. Maduro, Rose McGready, Bairbre McNicholas, Diego De Mendoza, Luis Morales-Quinteros, Francois Nosten, Alfred Papali, Gianluca Paternoster, Frederique Paulus, Luigi Pisani, Eloi Prud'Homme, Jean Damien Ricard, Oriol Roca, Chiara Sartini, Vittorio Scaravilli, Marcus J. Schultz, Chaisith Sivakorn, Peter E. Spronk, Jaques Sztajnbok, Youssef Trigui, Kathleen M. Vollman, Margaretha C.E. Van Der Woude
• Other Authors: Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia
• Format: Article
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Immunology and Microbiology; Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/77288
• Institution: Mahidol University

Non-intubated patients with acute respiratory failure due to COVID-19 could benefit from awake proning. Awake proning is an attractive intervention in settings with limited resources, as it comes with no additional costs. However, awake proning remains poorly used probably because of unfamiliarity a...