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Prone Positioning In Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Patients, Sarah Rose H. Thornton
Prone Positioning In Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Patients, Sarah Rose H. Thornton
Honors Undergraduate Theses
Introduction: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), seen in critically ill patients, is a disease process that affects the lungs and directly impacts a patient’s oxygenation. Despite treatment, patients often die of ARDS secondary to systemic complications. Prone positioning has been introduced as a treatment to improve the outcomes of ARDS patients. This thesis summarized and critiqued recent literature on the outcomes of prone positioning in ARDS patients.
Methodology: An initial literature search was conducted using CINAHL Plus with Text, Medline, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health. Multiple search terms …