id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-104423-fxo36z1s Ghelichkhani, Parisa Prone Position in Management of COVID-19 Patients; a Commentary 2020-04-11 .txt text/plain 1237 74 49 This disease exacerbates in a number of patients and causes pulmonary edema, multi-organ failure, and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). 10% of patients who are admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) develop ARDS (3) and despite all the treatment advances made, the rate of mortality is still high among these patients and has been reported to be between * Corresponding Author: Maryam Esmaeili; School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Nosrat St., Tohid Sq.,Tehran, Iran. Additionally, in another meta-analysis it was revealed that prone position can only reduce mortality due to ARDS when patients are ventilated with low tidal volume, the treatment is started within the initial 48 hours of initiation of the disease, and patients have severe hypoxia. Available meta-analyses show that prone position can decrease mortality in ARDS patients when performed in the initial hours of disease manifestation, in patients with severe impaired oxygenation and for a long time (8) . ./cache/cord-104423-fxo36z1s.txt ./txt/cord-104423-fxo36z1s.txt