Awake prone positioning on diaphragmatic function: Really bad or maybe good?

Basang Xiao¹, Yuntao Zhang¹, Zhuoga Ci¹, Dandan Shi¹, Hangyong He^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Lhasa People's Hospital, Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
² Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Lhasa People's Hospital, Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. yonghang2004@sina.com.
³ Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, No. 8 Gongren Tiyuchang Nanlu, Chaoyang, Beijing, 100020, China. yonghang2004@sina.com.

Comment

Basang Xiao et al. Crit Care. 2021.

. 2021 Dec 29;25(1):449.

doi: 10.1186/s13054-021-03866-1.

Basang Xiao¹, Yuntao Zhang¹, Zhuoga Ci¹, Dandan Shi¹, Hangyong He^{2

3}

¹ Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Lhasa People's Hospital, Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
² Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Lhasa People's Hospital, Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. yonghang2004@sina.com.
³ Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, No. 8 Gongren Tiyuchang Nanlu, Chaoyang, Beijing, 100020, China. yonghang2004@sina.com.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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