Rethinking the efficacy of awake prone positioning in COVID-19-related acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure - Authors' reply

Affiliations

• ¹ Respiratory Medicine Unit and Oxford National Institute for Health and Care Research Biomedical Research Centre, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Experimental Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ² Department of Emergency Medicine, Hôpital de Verdun, Montréal, QC, Canada.
• ³ Clinical Investigation Centre, INSERM 1415, CHRU Tours, Tours, France and Methods in Patients-Centred Outcomes and Health Research, INSERM UMR 1246, Nantes, France.
• ⁴ Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Galway University Hospitals and School of Medicine, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
• ⁵ Médecine Intensive Réanimation, Hôpital Édouard Herriot, Lyon, France, and Université de Lyon, France, and Institut Mondor de Recherches Biomédicales, Créteil, France.
• ⁶ Department of Cardiopulmonary Sciences, Division of Respiratory Care, Rush University, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
• ⁷ CHRU Tours, Médecine Intensive Réanimation, CIC INSERM 1415, Tours, France.
• ⁸ Servei de Medicina Intensiva, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ¹⁰ Unidad de terapia Intensiva, Hospital Civil Fray Antonio Alcalde Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
• ¹¹ Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, China.
• ¹² CHRU Tours, Médecine Intensive Réanimation, CIC INSERM 1415, Tours, France; INSERM, Centre d'étude des pathologies respiratoires, Université de Tours, Tours, France.
• ¹³ Department of Cardiopulmonary Sciences, Division of Respiratory Care, Rush University, Chicago, IL 60612, USA. Electronic address: jie_li@rush.edu.