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Table 3 Sedation, comfort, breathing pattern, and hemodynamics

From: Effect of awake prone position on diaphragmatic thickening fraction in patients assisted by noninvasive ventilation for hypoxemic acute respiratory failure related to novel coronavirus disease

Variables

Supine

Prone

p value

Sedation and comfort

   

RASS score

0.0 (− 0.3 to 0.0)

0.0 (0.0–0.0)

0.180

Comfort score

7.0 (6.00–8.00)

6.0 (5.00–7.00)

0.012

Breathing pattern

   

VT (ml)

493 (450–516)

453 (400–483)

 < 0.001

VT/PBW (ml/kg)

7.41 (6.95–7.74)

6.65 (6.15–6.92)

 < 0.001

Respiratory rate (breaths/min)

26 (24–28)

26 (22–30)

0.999

SpO2 (%)

96 (94–97)

98 (96–99)

0.008

Hemodynamics

   

Systolic arterial blood pressure (mmHg)

131 (118–143)

128 (117–144)

0.491

Diastolic arterial blood pressure (mmHg)

71 (62–82)

74 (65–81)

0.819

Mean arterial blood pressure (mmHg)

89 (82–102)

93 (85–99)

0.346

Heart rate (beats/min)

62 (52–78)

64 (54–83)

0.251

  1. RASS, Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale; VT, tidal volume; PBW, predicted body weight; SpO2, peripheral oxygen saturation
  2. Data are presented as median and (25th–75th percentile)
  3. p values refers to nonparametric Friedman test for repeated measures