Awake prone positioning may reduce intubation risk for patients with COVID-19

Awake prone positioning reduced intubation risk and hospital length of stay for patients with COVID-19 requiring oxygen through high-flow nasal cannula, according to results of the PROCARF trial.
“Our results support health care staff-driven awake prone positioning use as standard care applied early and as long as possible, with the goal of minimally 8 hours per day,” Miguel Ibarra-Estrada, MD, critical care physician at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico, said during a presentation at the Society of Critical Care Medicine Congress.
PROCARF was a randomized controlled

Awake prone positioning reduced intubation risk and hospital length of stay for patients with COVID-19 requiring oxygen through high-flow nasal cannula, according to results of the PROCARF trial.
“Our results support health care staff-driven awake prone positioning use as standard care applied early and as long as possible, with the goal of minimally 8 hours per day,” Miguel Ibarra-Estrada, MD, critical care physician at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico, said during a presentation at the Society of Critical Care Medicine Congress.
PROCARF was a randomized controlled