NCT02842788

Prevalence of Prone Positioning Use in ARDS Patients

Prospective Study on the Prevalence on the Use of Prone Positioning in ARDS Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 736 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Prone positioning has been shown to improve survival in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). However, a recent large observational study found that prone positioning was used in only 7% of all ARDS patients, and 16% in the severe category. However, this study did not focus on the prone position per se. In present study, the investigators would like to explore the rate of use of prone positioning in ARDS patients and the reasons why this treatment was not applied. The present study is one-day prevalence study repeated four times over one year. The hypothesis is that the rate of use of prone position is greater than 50% in the severe ARDS category.

Conditions

• Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Prone positioning	Turning the patient face down for several consecutive hours

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-04-01
• Primary completion: 2017-01-01
• Completion: 2017-01-01
• First posted: 2016-07-25
• Last updated: 2018-03-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France