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REBEL Cast Ep110: The COVI-PRONE Trial – Awake Prone Positioning and COVID-19

Background: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians were looking for practical, widely available, and low-cost interventions to help patients with hypoxemia.  One of those interventions was awake prone positioning.  Potential mechanisms of benefit in awake proning include more uniform distribution ...

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Infectious DiseaseThoracic and Respiratory

Awake Proning for COVID-19 Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure

Background: Awake prone positioning was an intervention adopted early in the COVID-19 pandemic for patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure.  Unfortunately, many early trials were not powered to show improvements in oxygenation, escalation of respiratory support, or mortality. The one meta-analysis ...

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ResuscitationThoracic and Respiratory

COVID-19 Awake Proning – All Hype?

Background: Facilities around the world have seen surges of COVID-19 pneumonia  patients who have required protracted hospitalizations leading to overwhelmed hospital systems. Awake proning is a practice that was adopted early in the pandemic as a means to avoid, or ...

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Infectious DiseaseThoracic and Respiratory

COVID-19: An EBM Take

The Novel Coronavirus 2019, was first reported on in Wuhan, China in late December 2019.  The outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern in January 2020 and on March 11th, 2020, the outbreak was declared a global ...

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Infectious Disease

COVID-19 Update: Aerosol Box, Awake Proning, Prediction Scores, & Doing the Basics Right

While the rate of prepublications on COVID19 continue to be cranked out, we at REBEL EM have reduced our blog post production. It’s not because we’re reading less, but  we’ve reported enough on small, retrospective, observational studies that don’t tell ...

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Infectious DiseaseThoracic and Respiratory

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