Early Prone Positioning After Acute Type A Aortic Dissection Surgery for Moderate-to-Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Is Safe and Shortens Duration of Mechanical Ventilation
Huilong Chen, Chuang Wu, Yunwei Chen, Bin Chen, Junhao Xie, Shuang Zhou, Feng Chen, Juxiang Wang · 2026
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Chen and co-authors studied a risky intensive-care maneuver after one of the most dangerous heart operations, in this 2026 Critical Care Explorations paper. Patients who develop severe lung failure after repair of an acute type A aortic dissection are often too unstable to turn face-down, the prone position that helps failing lungs. The team reviewed seventy-eight such patients at one heart center.
Fifty-eight patients were proned and twenty stayed on their backs. Oxygen levels in the proned group rose quickly, within hours, and patients turned within forty-eight hours of lung failure spent less time on the ventilator. No safety disaster emerged. The authors back early, protocol-guided proning for selected patients, with prospective trials to confirm.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Huilong Chen, Chuang Wu, Yunwei Chen, Bin Chen, Junhao Xie, Shuang Zhou, Feng Chen, Juxiang Wang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |