[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.