Awake prone position in patients with acute hypoxic respiratory failure: A narrative review

Affiliations

• ¹ Critical Care Medicine Department, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• ² Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Canada; O'Brien Institute for Public Health and Libin Cardiovascular Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
• ³ Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Canada; Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
• ⁴ Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; The Research Institute of St Joe's Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Department of Medicine, Division of Critical Care, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; Department of Critical Care, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• ⁵ Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Electronic address: weathera@ualberta.ca.