Prone Position in Management of COVID-19 Patients; a Commentary

Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2020, Pages e48-

  Ghelichkhani, Parisa ^a   Esmaeili, Maryam ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

COVID 19; pandemics; prone position; respiratory distress syndrome, adult; sars cov 2; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

Indexed keywords

CISATRACURIUM;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOW TIDAL VOLUME VENTILATION; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG EDEMA; MORTALITY RATE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANDEMIC; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT SELECTION; PREVALENCE; PRONE POSITION; TIME TO TREATMENT; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 85099121926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 26454904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22037/aaem.v8i1.674     Document Type: Article

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