Effectiveness and safety of awake prone positioning in COVID-19-related acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure: an overview of systematic reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate and summarize systematic reviews of the effects and safety of awake prone positioning for COVID-19-related acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure.

Methods

A comprehensive search was conducted on PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, Web of Science, CNKI, CSPD, CCD and CBM from their inception to March 28, 2023. Systematic reviews (SRs) of awake prone positioning (APP) for COVID-19-related acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure in adults were included. Two reviewers screened the eligible articles, and four reviewers in pairs extracted data and assessed the methodological quality/certainty of the evidence of all included SRs by AMSTAR 2 and GRADE tools. The overlap of primary studies was measured by calculating corrected covered areas. Data from the included

SUBMITTER: Li Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10759512 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature