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Staffing Difficulties for Prone Positioning<\/span><\/h2>\n

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It is well established that safe nurse to patient ratios are strongly linked to positive patient outcomes. However, many recent articles1<\/sup> have highlighted the growing shortage of skilled nurses, a serious problem amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Intensive care clinicians now bear even more heavy responsibilities, from managing increasing numbers of critically ill patients while ensuring everyone\u2019s protection with personal protective equipment, to manually turning multiple patients to the prone position every day, many times a day. Prone positioning has been established as a standard of care for COVID-19 patients<\/b>2<\/sup><\/b> and other patients with acute respiratory failure<\/b>3<\/sup><\/b>; however, this procedure has many requirements for safe implementation<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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Manual prone positioning requires 6\u20138 care team members4<\/sup> based on patient weight and may require even more if multiple lines and tubes are involved. In addition, manually turning the patient from the supine to the prone position can take up to 30 minutes and longer if the proper staff isn\u2019t available to assist with the maneuver. A recent analysis5<\/sup> of COVID-19 patients across 24 ICU units in Italy found that 61% of ICU patients required prone positioning<\/b>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Prone positioning is an essential intervention to improve breathing for critically ill patients<\/b>3<\/sup><\/b>, but without proper staffing and\/or tools, prone positioning may not be implemented. Removing this critically important treatment can result in slower recovery and negative outcomes. Facilities with access to automated, safe patient-handling devices are more likely to implement prone positioning, especially for morbidly obese patients.<\/p>\n

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Automated prone positioning<\/p><\/div>\n

Automated prone positioning provides immense benefits for clinicians and patients:<\/p>\n

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