JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Prone positioning in patients with moderate and severe acute respiratory distress syndrome: a randomized controlled trial.
Post hoc analysis of a previous trial has suggested that prone positioning may improve survival in patients with severe hypoxemia and with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). ⋯ Data from this study indicate that prone positioning does not provide significant survival benefit in patients with ARDS or in subgroups of patients with moderate and severe hypoxemia.