A nonrandomized controlled study found awake prone position (median of 4.2 hours per day) may not benefit hospitalized adults with Covid-19.

Assessment of Awake Prone Positioning in Hospitalized Adults With COVID-19: A Nonrandomized Controlled Trial – JAMA Internal Medicine

Commentaries:

Prone Positioning for Nonintubated Patients With COVID-19—Potential Dangers of Extrapolation and Intermediate Outcome Variables – JAMA Internal Medicine

Study suggests worse outcomes for awake COVID patients in prone position – CIDRAP

Putting Hospitalized COVID Patients on Their Belly May Not Be a Good Idea After All – HealthDay

Related:

Awake prone positioning for non-intubated patients with COVID-19-related acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Prone positioning of patients with moderate hypoxaemia due to covid-19: multicentre pragmatic randomised trial (COVID-PRONE) – The BMJ

RCT: Prone positioning of patients with moderate hypoxia due to COVID-19 – medRxiv

Awake prone positioning for COVID-19 acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure: a randomised, controlled, multinational, open-label meta-trial – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Awake prone positioning in patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure due to COVID-19: the PROFLO multicenter randomized clinical trial – Critical Care

Prone Positioning of Nonintubated Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – Critical Care Medicine

Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)

Important negative study: non randomized trial finds no clinical benefit to awake proning vs usual care in COVID

No difference in rates of intubation, length of stay, or 28 day mortality

Medicine is humbling. This emphasizes the importance of trials
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— Nick Mark MD (@nickmmark) April 18, 2022