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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kimmoun, Antoine
• Levy, Bruno
• Chenuel, Bruno

Titel

Usefulness and safety of a dedicated team to prone patients with severe ARDS due to COVID-19

Ist Teil von

• Critical care (London, England), 2020-08, Vol.24 (1), p.509-509, Article 509

Ort / Verlag

England: BioMed Central Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

SpringerLink

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]the high number of ICU admissions quickly overwhelmed the ability of the daily ICU team to place patients in PP, a complex and time-consuming maneuver. [...]we created a dedicated medical team with reassigned volunteers to cope with the large number of patients requiring PP. For patients treated with VV-ECMO, a supplementary physician was added to secure the lines. Since PP is a complex procedure and has many potential adverse events requiring adequate and well-trained staff, volunteers received previously a theoretical training and a hands-on ad hoc training session. Since the pathophysiology is poorly understood [4, 5], the specific role of PP among the optimal management for COVID-19 patients with ARDS, in order to reduce mortality needs to be addressed.