A technique that's been around for a while is finding new success in treating coronavirus patients.

The technique, called prone positioning, has been used to help treat patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome.

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Apart from regular medicines, oxygen and plasma therapy for Covid-19 treatment, doctors at Rajasthan University of Health Sciences (RUHS) and other medical colleges are working on prone position ...

Although placing patients with acute respiratory failure in a prone (face down) position improves their oxygenation 60 to 70 percent of the time, the effect on survival is not known.

Our findings support the routine implementation of awake prone positioning in critically ill patients with COVID19 requiring high flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy.

Doctors are finding that placing the sickest coronavirus patients on their stomachs -- called prone positioning - helps increase the amount of oxygen that's getting to their lungs.