Anesthesiology
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Editorial Comment
Open-lung Ventilation Strategy during General Anesthesia.
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Editorial Comment
Quality Improvement and In Situ Simulation for High-quality Crisis Care.
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Letter Case Reports Comparative Study
Supine versus Prone Positioning in COVID-19 Pneumonia: Comment.
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Prone ventilation redistributes lung inflation along the gravitational axis; however, localized, nongravitational effects of body position are less well characterized. The authors hypothesize that positional inflation improvements follow both gravitational and nongravitational distributions. This study is a nonoverlapping reanalysis of previously published large animal data. ⋯ During mechanical ventilation, lung reinflation and recruitment by the prone positioning were primarily localized in the dorso-caudal lung. The local effects of positioning in this lung region may determine its clinical efficacy.