IMPACT OF OXYGENATION ON PATIENTS WITH COVID-19 AND ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME SUBMITTED TO THE PRONE POSITION IN AN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT IN A CITY IN WESTERN PARANÁ

Abstract

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic began, a new coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2 in which thousands of people died. With the race against time to reduce deaths from the new coronavirus, one of the techniques used in intensive care units was pronation, which involves placing the patient in a prone position to improve the PaO2/FiO2 ratio, i.e. improve the patient's oxygenation. The aim of this project is to analyze data from the medical records of patients in an intensive care unit in the west of Paraná to identify the response in the ratio between partial pressure of arterial oxygen - PaO2 and fraction of inspired oxygen - FiO2 (PaO2 /FiO2) in patients with covid-19 and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) who were submitted to prone positioning.