COVID and short of breath? : PRONING may improve breathing.
This post is for ONLY physician friends.
Please consult a physician, if you are having any symptoms.
By now you are all familiar with basics of COVID.
One thing that may not have been emphasized is that PRONING (lying on stomach, rather than on your back) improves patient’s oxygenation. It may avoid the need for intubation and ventilator. Even in intubated patients, PRONING improves patients breathing.
This information has not been emphasized in the media and even in the scientific literature. Here is one article:
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