ArticleNursing in critical care2022
Nursing care and prevalence of adverse events in prone position: Characteristics of mechanically ventilated patients with severe SARS-CoV-2 pulmonary infection.
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- Effects of prone versus supine position during enteral nutrition on clinical outcomes and complications in mechanically ventilated patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Long-term complications of prone position ventilation with relevance for acute and postacute rehabilitation: a systematic review of the literature.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine · 2023Pooled it
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- A Bundle of Interventions to Prevent Pressure Ulcers During Prone Position in Adult Patients With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Results of a French Stepped-Wedge Randomized Controlled Trial.Nursing in critical care · 2025Trial
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- The effects of prolonged prone positioning on response and prognosis in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: a retrospective cohort study.Journal of intensive care · 2025Article
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- Prone Positioning for Patients With COVID-19-Induced Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure: Flipping the Script.Respiratory care · 2023Review
- Strategies to preventing pressure injuries among intensive care unit patients mechanically ventilated in prone position: a systematic review and a Delphi study.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Nursing care and prevalence of adverse events in prone position: Characteristics of mechanically ventilated patients with severe SARS-CoV-2 pulmonary infection.Nursing in critical care · 2022Article
- Barriers to nutrition therapy in the critically ill patient with COVID-19.JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition · 2022Article
- Short and long-term complications due to standard and extended prone position cycles in CoViD-19 patients.Intensive & critical care nursing · 2022Article
- Enteral nutritional support for patients hospitalized with COVID-19: Results from the first wave in a public hospital.Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) · 2022Article
- Complications of prone positioning in patients with COVID-19: A cross-sectional study.Intensive & critical care nursing · 2021Article
- Incidence and Practice of Early Prone Positioning in Invasively Ventilated COVID-19 Patients-Insights from the PRoVENT-COVID Observational Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
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- [Prone positioning in Covid-19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome and invasive mechanical ventilation].Enfermeria intensivaArticle
- Prone positioning in COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome and invasive mechanical ventilation.Enfermeria intensivaArticle
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Abstract
backgroundBecause of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the use of prone positioning has dramatically increased in the intensive care unit (ICU). Because this manoeuvre is related to several complications, it must be performed in a protocolized manner by the appropriate personnel.
aimTo determine the prevalence of adverse events (AEs) in patients admitted to the ICU with a diagnosis of COVID-19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome (C-ARDS) undergoing mechanical ventilation in prone position (PP).
designDescriptive ambispective study of patients admitted to the ICU diagnosed with C-ARDS undergoing mechanical ventilation who were in the PP at least once. The number of PP manoeuvres and the time spent in the PP were recorded for each subject. AEs proportions and frequencies were calculated, and analysis of variance was used to assess mean differences in the number of manoeuvres and total hours in PP stratified by the number of facial pressure ulcers. IBM SPSS Statistics v.25.0. and EPIDAT 4.1 software were used.
resultsForty-four patients were analysed, and 130 PP manoeuvres were performed. The most frequently observed AEs were facial oedema in 26 patients (80.3%) and facial pressure ulcers in 20 (60.6%). There was a significant positive association between the time spent in PP and the development of facial pressure ulcers (P < .001). Enteral nutrition was well tolerated, and no serious AEs or sentinel events were noted.
conclusionDespite the stressful, demanding situation during the peak of the pandemic, the large number of PP manoeuvres, and long duration spent in this position, no serious AEs occurred. This study highlights the need to implement preventive measures to avoid the development of pressure ulcers secondary to prone positioning. RELEVANCE TO PRACTICE: Prone positioning requires a nursing protocol to prevent the occurrence of AEs that may reduce the quality of nursing care.
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