NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A collaboratively designed nurse-driven supine trial protocol for prone, intubated patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome may improve care plan clarity, facilitate ...

Doctors are seeing unusual success with a decidedly low-tech technique to treat those with novel coronavirus. Locally, Providence St. Joseph Medical Center has created a protocol for the prone ...

Doctors have begun using a technique called "proning," or shifting patients on their stomach, to prevent serious illness from the coronavirus. Here, a patient with COVID-19 in an Italian hospital.

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- There is good news in terms of Intensive Care Unit admissions and intubations of COVID-19 patients in New York. The three-day average total for both is down. Some are giving at ...

SAN DIEGO — A new protocol for turning patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) on their stomachs for at least 12 hours a day has made the procedure faster and easier to ...

Oxygenation improved in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 with severe hypoxemic respiratory failure when they were placed in the prone position, a small study in New York City found. One hour after ...

The addition of a certified wound and skin care nurse to a multiprofessional prone-positioning team at Penn Medicine Princeton Health significantly reduced the odds of patients with COVID-19 ...

Virus cells. Coronavirus Covid-19 concept image. Patient-directed prone positioning is not feasible in spontaneously breathing, nonintubated patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Patient-directed prone ...

Appearing on "America's Newsroom," Southern Hills Hospital ICU Medical Director Dr. Christopher Voscopoulos explained that the medical center had learned the technique from other physicians in virus ...

ORLANDO – The CDC reports that COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in 2020 after heart disease and cancer. In the U.S. alone about 600,000 have died from the disease. Researchers say they’ve ...

Placing hospitalized COVID-19 patients on their stomach is helpful if they're on a mechanical ventilator, but a new study suggests it's not a good idea for patients who are not intubated. "Awake" ...