Martha A.Q. Curley

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Trial finds no benefit from prone positioning or high-frequency ventilation in pediatric ARDS

Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and researcher at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

For more than 30 years, pediatric intensive care doctors have argued over whether turning a desperately ill child face-down, or ventilating them with hundreds of tiny rapid breaths per minute, helps more than standard care. A 424-patient international trial published in The Lancet found neither did.

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"We believe that these findings will change clinical practice because they provide a level of evidence that we have not had previously in this population."

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"The findings provide us with an opportunity to get past this question that's plagued us for so long and ask other important questions that include precision-based therapies for these patients."

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