Jason Weatherald, Ken Kuljit S Parhar, Zainab Al Duhailib, Derek K Chu, Anders Granholm, Kevin Solverson, Kimberley Lewis, Morten Hylander Møller, Mohammed Alshahrani, Emilie Belley-Cote, Nicole Loroff, Edward T Qian, Cheryl L Gatto, Todd W Rice, Dan Niven, Henry T Stelfox, Kirsten Fiest, Deborah Cook, Yaseen M Arabi, Waleed Alhazzani
OBJECTIVE: To determine the efficacy and safety of awake prone positioning versus usual care in non-intubated adults with hypoxemic respiratory failure due to covid-19. DESIGN: Systematic review with frequentist and bayesian meta-analyses. STUDY ELIGIBILITY: Randomized trials comparing awake prone positioning versus usual care in adults with covid-19 related hypoxemic respiratory failure. Information sources were Medline, Embase, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials from inception to 4 March 2022...
December 7, 2022: BMJ: British Medical Journal