Amber Brockman is a medical-surgical clinical registered nurse at WellSpan York Hospital in York, PA. Rebekah L. Carmel is an assistant professor in the Nurse Anesthesia Program at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Barbara L. Buchko is the director of Evidence-Based Practice and Nursing Research, WellSpan Health.
Nursing. 2022 Sep 1;52(9):43-48. doi: 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000853996.04531.c4.
This article discusses the pathophysiology of COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), the evidence supporting the use of awake prone positioning (APP) for adult patients with COVID-19 ARDS cared for in acute care medical units, and a quality improvement initiative to support a standardized APP process on a COVID-19 medical unit.
本文讨论了 COVID-19 急性呼吸窘迫综合征(ARDS)的病理生理学,以及支持在急性护理医疗单位中对 COVID-19 ARDS 成人患者使用清醒俯卧位(APP)的证据,并介绍了一项质量改进计划,以支持 COVID-19 医疗单元中 APP 流程的标准化。