Case Reports
Vol. 14 No. 1 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2018.7524

Prone positioning in severe acute hypoxemic respiratory failure in the emergency ward

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Received: 26 April 2018
Published: 31 May 2018
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Prone positioning, Acute respiratory failure, Pneumonia.

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Andrea Bellone
andrea.bellone@ospedaleniguarda.it
Emergency Ward, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy.
Adriano Basile
Emergency Ward, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy.
This paper reports the authors’ preliminary experience with three patients affected by severe acute hypoxemic respiratory failure due to bilateral pneumonia placed in a prone position in Emergency Medicine Ward during application of high flow oxygen nasal cannula.

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Prone positioning in severe acute hypoxemic respiratory failure in the emergency ward. (2018). Emergency Care Journal, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2018.7524

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