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Prone Positioning in Spontaneously Breathing Nonintubated Covid-19 Patient: a Pilot Study

Prone Positioning in Spontaneously Breathing Nonintubated Covid-19 Patient: a Pilot Study (ProCov)

Status
UNKNOWN
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT04344106
Acronym
ProCov
Enrollment
25
Registered
2020-04-14
Start date
2020-04-01
Completion date
2020-05-01
Last updated
2020-04-14

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Coronavirus Infection, Oxygen Deficiency

Brief summary

The prone position consists of placing the patient on his or her stomach with the head on the side, during sessions lasting several hours a day and could help spontaneous ventilate the patient.

Detailed description

SARS-CoV-2 is an RNA virus whose tropism for the respiratory system is responsible for many cases of acute respiratory failure. This can lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) requiring orotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation. The prone position is a validated intensive care technique in the treatment of ARDS in mechanically ventilated patients. Performing prone position sessions improves patient oxygenation by optimizing the ventilation/perfusion ratios of the posterior areas of the lungs. There is limited data in the literature on the ventral decubitus in spontaneous ventilation. They are mainly case series or retrospective studies. In the case of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic, we are seeing patients with posterior lung involvement who may benefit from prone position sessions prior to mechanical ventilation. This maneuver, usually done in an intubated-ventilated-curarized patient, will be done in our spontaneous ventilation study in a conscious patient.The patient will then be placed in prone position with the help of physiotherapists so that the patient is correctly positioned. The maneuver and the clinical monitoring of the patient's tolerance to the prone position will be done under medical and paramedical supervision, including monitoring of saturation during and after the procedure. A polygraph will also be installed on the patient in order to monitor the patient's position (on the back vs. on the stomach), saturation and heart rate during the entire prone position session. An arterial gasometry will be performed before the patient is placed in the prone position, one hour after and after returning to the supine position.

Interventions

PROCEDUREProne positioning

The prone positioning consists of placing the patient on his or her stomach with the head on the side, during sessions lasting several hours a day.

Sponsors

ELHARRAR Xavier
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Patient aged at least 18 years; * Hospitalized in a COVID unit or intensive care unit; * Spontaneously breathing and with oxygen therapy with nasal canula, mask or High Flow Oxygen Therapy; * Requiring oxygen therapy ≥ 1l for Sat ≥ 90%; * COVID 19 positive in RT-PCR or diagnosis on clinicals symptoms and highly evocatives scannographics lesions in an epidemic period; * Chest scanner without injection within 72 hours prior to inclusion; * Bilateral scannographic lesions, including posterior condensations and/or posterior predominance of lesions; * Patient benefiting from French social security, under any regime

Exclusion criteria

* acute respiratory distress (polypnea \>25 or use of accessory respiratory muscles); * Alteration of consciousness; * Active or recent hemoptysis (\<1 month); * Recent Thrombo-Embolic Venous Disease (\< 1 month); * Pericardial effusion; * Pleural effusion of high abundance, clinical or scannographic; * Chronic back or cervical pain/ history of spinal surgery/ bone metastases; * Wounds, facial trauma, tracheal, sternal or facial surgery \< 15 days; * Recent abdominal surgery (\< 1 month); * Intracranial HyperTension \> 30mmHg; * Patient deprived of liberty, under guardianship or curatorship; * Pregnant or lactating woman.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Proportion of responder patients to prone position1 hourPaO2 improvement of more than 20% after one hour in prone position in spontaneously breathing non intubated COVID-19 patients.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Evolution of PaO21 dayPaO2 at 1 hour from the start of prone position and at 6 to 12 hours afterreturn to supine position.
Duration of prone positioning and PaO2 evolution2 daysLook for an association between the time spent in Prone positione and persistent responder or not;
Evolution of Spo21 hourproportion of patients improving their arterial saturation within 1 hour of Prone Position
proportion of persistent responders patients after prone position1 dayPaO2 improvement of more than 20% at 6 to 12 hours from return to supine position.
Intolerance to prone positioning1 dayproportion of patients intolerant to prone position (Prone Position \<1h);
Tolerance to prone positioning1 dayproportion of patients who can maintain prone position for more than 3 h.
EVA Dyspnea1 dayevolution of the EVA scores for dyspnea at 1 hour from the start of the Prone Position and at 6 hours after the end of the Prone Position

Countries

France

Contacts

Primary ContactXavier ELHARRAR, MD
rechercheclinique@ch-aix.fr0442335650
Backup ContactYoussef Trigui, MD
rechercheclinique@ch-aix.fr0033674215193

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026