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Tuesday, 11 August 2020

Efficacy of early prone position for COVID-19 patients with severe hypoxia: a single-center prospective cohort study



Xuefeng ZangQian WangHua ZhouSanhong LiuXinying Xue  COVID-19 Early Prone Position Study Group


With the global epidemic of COVID-19, as of July 8, 2020, 12,025,348 people have been infected with 4.56% mortality [1]. Many COVID-19 patients died due to severe hypoxia [23]. It is particularly important to find a simple and effective way for COVID-19 patients’ treatment. Recent studies reported that prone position was used to treat non-intubated COVID-19 patients and hypoxemic acute respiratory failure [45]. However, the number of patients was small, the follow-up was short, clinical outcomes were not assessed in their study. In this study, we aimed to explore whether the early prone position can effectively improve severe hypoxia, CT imaging performance and survival prognosis of COVID-19 patients with severe hypoxia…

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