A Wake Prone Positioning in Non-intubated Patients With Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure

A Wake Prone Positioning in Non-intubated Patients With Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure

Patients admitted to the ICU with severe hypoxemia are at high risk for mortality. Few therapies have been proven to improve patient outcomes or duration of mechanical ventilation e.g. low tidal volume ventilation, prone positioning, and a fluid-restrictive strategy. Prone positioning is a technique used to help patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome breathe better. There is high degree of uncertainty on its effects on clinical outcomes in non-intubated patients with acute hypoxemia and larger studies are needed.

we plan to study the effect of prone positioning versus standard treatment in non-intubated patients with acute hypoxemia admitted at Respiratory Intensive Care Unit (RICU), Chest Department, Assiut University Hospital, Egypt.

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients aged 18 years or older who are not intubated and required at least 40% oxygen (via low- or high-flow oxygen devices) or noninvasive positive pressure ventilation.

Exclusion Criteria: Patients will be excluded from the study if they :

had received invasive mechanical ventilation, had contraindications to prone positioning, are at risk of complications from prone positioning, had been self-prone positioning prior to enrollment and Pregnancy.