Background <p>Prone positioning of patients with COVID-19 undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) is widely used, but evidence of efficacy remains sparse. The COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium has generated one of the largest global datasets on the management and outcomes of critically ill COVID-19 patients. This prospective cohort study investigated the association between prone positioning and mortality and in particular focussed on timing of treatment.</p> Methods <p>We investigated the incidence, demographic profile, management and outcomes of proned patients undergoing IMV for COVID-19 in the study. We compared outcomes between patients prone positioned within 48 h of IMV to those (i) never proned, and (ii) proned only after 48 h.</p> Results <p>3131 patients had data on prone positioning, 1482 (47%) were never proned, 1034 (33%) were proned within 48 h and 615 (20%) were proned only after 48 h of commencement of IMV. 28-day (hazard ratio 0.82, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.68, 0.98, p = 0.03) and 90-day (hazard ratio 0.81, 95% CI 0.68, 0.96, p = 0.02) mortality risks were lower in those patients proned within 48 h of IMV compared to those never proned. However, there was no evidence for a statistically significant association between prone positioning after 48 h with 28-day (hazard ratio 0.93, 95% CI 0.75, 1.14, p = 0.47) or 90-day mortality (hazard ratio 0.95, 95% CI 0.78, 1.16, p = 0.59).</p> Conclusions <p>Prone positioning is associated with improved outcomes in patients with COVID-19, but timing matters. We found no association between later proning and patient outcome.</p>

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Effect of early and later prone positioning on outcomes in invasively ventilated COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: analysis of the prospective COVID-19 critical care consortium cohort study

  • Andrew J. Simpkin,
  • Bairbre A. McNicholas,
  • David Hannon,
  • Robert Bartlett,
  • Davide Chiumello,
  • Heidi J. Dalton,
  • Kristen Gibbons,
  • Nicole White,
  • Laura Merson,
  • Eddy Fan,
  • Mauro Panigada,
  • Giacomo Grasselli,
  • Anna Motos,
  • Antoni Torres,
  • Ferran Barbé,
  • Pauline Yeung Ng,
  • Jonathon P. Fanning,
  • Alistair Nichol,
  • Jacky Y. Suen,
  • Gianluigi Li Bassi,
  • John F. Fraser,
  • John G. Laffey

摘要

Background

Prone positioning of patients with COVID-19 undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) is widely used, but evidence of efficacy remains sparse. The COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium has generated one of the largest global datasets on the management and outcomes of critically ill COVID-19 patients. This prospective cohort study investigated the association between prone positioning and mortality and in particular focussed on timing of treatment.

Methods

We investigated the incidence, demographic profile, management and outcomes of proned patients undergoing IMV for COVID-19 in the study. We compared outcomes between patients prone positioned within 48 h of IMV to those (i) never proned, and (ii) proned only after 48 h.

Results

3131 patients had data on prone positioning, 1482 (47%) were never proned, 1034 (33%) were proned within 48 h and 615 (20%) were proned only after 48 h of commencement of IMV. 28-day (hazard ratio 0.82, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.68, 0.98, p = 0.03) and 90-day (hazard ratio 0.81, 95% CI 0.68, 0.96, p = 0.02) mortality risks were lower in those patients proned within 48 h of IMV compared to those never proned. However, there was no evidence for a statistically significant association between prone positioning after 48 h with 28-day (hazard ratio 0.93, 95% CI 0.75, 1.14, p = 0.47) or 90-day mortality (hazard ratio 0.95, 95% CI 0.78, 1.16, p = 0.59).

Conclusions

Prone positioning is associated with improved outcomes in patients with COVID-19, but timing matters. We found no association between later proning and patient outcome.