Prone Positioning of Patients Found to be Beneficial to COVID-19 Patient Care
Prehospital systems often implement procedures, practices and equipment that change medicine and encourage hospitals to adopt and continue them throughout the patient care treatment cycle.
In this treatment-impact episode of The EMS Today Show, JEMS Editor Emeritus A.J. Heightman moderates an outstanding panel of experts who point out that “prone positioning” of patients is now shown to be one of those procedures. Proning is easy to do, requires no special equipment and can dramatically improve a patient’s oxygen saturation levels.
David A. Farcy MD, FAAEM, FACEP, FCCM, president of the…
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