Physiological effects and subjective tolerability of prone positioning in COVID-19 and healthy hypoxic challenge

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BACKGROUND: Prone positioning has a beneficial role in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients receiving ventilation but lacks evidence in awake non-ventilated patients, with most studies being retrospective, lacking control populations and information on subjective tolerability.

METHODS: We conducted a prospective, single-centre study of prone positioning in awake non-ventilated patients with COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 pneumonia. The primary outcome was change in peripheral oxygenation in prone versus supine position. Secondary outcomes assessed effects on end-tidal CO2, respiratory rate, heart rate and subjective symptoms. We also recruited healthy volunteers to undergo proning during hypoxic challenge.

RESULTS: 238 hospitalised patients with pneumonia were screened; 55 were eligible with 25 COVID-19 patients and three non-COVID-19 patients agreeing to undergo proning - the latter insufficient for further analysis. 10 healthy control volunteers underwent hypoxic challenge. Patients with COVID-19 had a median age of 64 years (interquartile range 53-75). Proning led to an increase in oxygen saturation measured by pulse oximetry (SpO2) compared to supine position (difference +1.62%; p=0.003) and occurred within 10 min of proning. There were no effects on end-tidal CO2, respiratory rate or heart rate. There was an increase in subjective discomfort (p=0.003), with no difference in breathlessness. Among healthy controls undergoing hypoxic challenge, proning did not lead to a change in SpO2 or subjective symptom scores.

CONCLUSION: Identification of suitable patients with COVID-19 requiring oxygen supplementation from general ward environments for awake proning is challenging. Prone positioning leads to a small increase in SpO2 within 10 min of proning though is associated with increased discomfort.

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2022

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2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

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ERJ open research - 8(2022), 1 vom: 01. Jan.

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Englisch

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Jha, Akhilesh [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Fangyue [VerfasserIn]
Mann, Sam [VerfasserIn]
Shah, Ravi [VerfasserIn]
Abu-Youssef, Randa [VerfasserIn]
Pavey, Holly [VerfasserIn]
Lin-Jia-Qi, Helen [VerfasserIn]
Cara, Josh [VerfasserIn]
Cunningham, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Fitzpatrick, Kate [VerfasserIn]
Goh, Celine [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Renee [VerfasserIn]
Mookerjee, Souradip [VerfasserIn]
Nageshwaran, Vaitehi [VerfasserIn]
Old, Timothy [VerfasserIn]
Oxley, Catherine [VerfasserIn]
Jordon, Louise [VerfasserIn]
Selvan, Mayurun [VerfasserIn]
Wood, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Ying, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Chen [VerfasserIn]
Wozniak, Dariusz [VerfasserIn]
Goodhart, Iain [VerfasserIn]
Early, Frances [VerfasserIn]
Fisk, Marie [VerfasserIn]
Fuld, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 01.05.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

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10.1183/23120541.00524-2021

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NLM33669170X