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  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Pulmonology
  • Infectious Diseases

Background:

  • COVID-19 respiratory failure often necessitates intensive care unit (ICU) admission and invasive mechanical ventilation.
  • Awake prone positioning (APP) is a non-invasive technique used globally to improve oxygenation in respiratory distress.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the efficacy of early awake prone positioning in preventing invasive mechanical ventilation and ICU referral for COVID-19 patients.
  • To review existing literature on APP's benefits and drawbacks in COVID-19 respiratory failure.

Main Methods:

  • Observation of approximately 30 COVID-19 patients in Suriname undergoing APP.
  • Systematic review of existing literature on APP in COVID-19 patients.

Main Results:

  • Prospective studies indicate APP can temporarily improve oxygenation but do not demonstrate a reduction in mortality or intubation rates.
  • The average symptom duration in reviewed studies was 10-11 days.
  • APP in patients with longer symptom duration (beyond 10-11 days) showed no improvement in survival or need for intubation.

Conclusions:

  • Awake prone positioning is a simple intervention that may improve oxygenation in COVID-19 patients with respiratory failure.
  • Current evidence does not support APP as a method to reduce mortality or the need for invasive mechanical ventilation, especially in patients with prolonged symptoms.
  • Prospective studies specifically investigating *early* APP intervention in COVID-19 are lacking.