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COVID-19 Ventilator Patients Can Have Permanent Nerve Damage – Here’s Why – SciTechDaily
Prone positioning saves lives, but nerve pressure injuries impair arms and legs. Severely ill COVID-19 patients on ventilators are placed in a prone (face down) position because it’s easier for them to breathe and reduces mortality. But that life-saving posit…
Prone positioning saves lives, but nerve pressure injuries impair arms and legs.
Severely ill COVID-19 patients on ventilators are placed in a prone (face down) position because it’s easier for them to breathe and reduces mortality. But that life-saving position can also cause permanent nerve damage in these vulnerable patients, reports a newly accepted study from Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Scientists believe the nerve damage is the result …
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