[Effect of duration of prone position in ARDS patients during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic].

Objective: To describe the characteristics of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome due to bilateral COVID-19 pneumonia on invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) and analyze the effect of prolonged prone decubitus > 24 h (PPD) compared to prone decubitus < 24 h (PD).

Design: Retrospective observational descriptive study. Uni and bivariate analysis.

Effect of the duration of prone position in ARDS patients during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

Objective: To describe the characteristics of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) due to bilateral COVID-19 pneumonia on invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV), and to analyze the effect of prone position >24 h (prolonged) (PPP) compared to prone decubitus <24 h (PP).

Design: A retrospective observational descriptive study was carried out, with uni- and bivariate analyses.

Setting: Department of Intensive Care Medicine.

Diagnostic accuracy of sTREM-1 to identify infection in critically ill patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome.

Objectives: To assess the accuracy of plasma levels of soluble Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid cells (sTREM)-1 to diagnose infection in critical patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS).

Design And Methods: We prospectively studied 114 patients with SIRS criteria. The patients' plasma levels of sTREM-1 were measured within 24h of admission to the intensive care unit.