Proning in ARDS

Proning patients who suffer from ARDS is a hallmark of treatment, but many do not know the modality by which it helps. Here, I go over the forces that worsen our VQ matching and hypoxemia when supine and how flipping a patient to the prone position helps alleviate that.

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