Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · May 2016
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyVentilator-associated pneumonia in ARDS patients: the impact of prone positioning. A secondary analysis of the PROSEVA trial.
The goal of this study was to assess the impact of prone positioning on the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and the role of VAP in mortality in a recent multicenter trial performed on patients with severe ARDS. ⋯ In severe ARDS patients prone positioning did not reduce the incidence of VAP and VAP was associated with higher mortality.