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Study of prone positioning to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia in hypoxemic patients
European Respiratory Journal , 09/15/09
Mounier R et al. – In ICU patients with hypoxemic acute respiratory failure, PP had no effect on the risk of VAP. PP delayed mortality without decreasing 28–day mortality. PP for longer than 1 day might decrease mortality, particularly in the sickest patients.
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