Monday, May 18, 2020

Low-Tech Way to Help Some Covid Patients: Flip Them Over

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/health/coronavirus-proning-lungs.html?algo=identity&fellback=false&imp_id=680516836&imp_id=36060187&action=click&module=Science%20%20Technology&pgtype=Homepage


Turning ventilated patients onto their stomachs, called proning, helps them by opening their lungs. Now doctors are testing to see if it can keep others off ventilators altogether.
 

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