Safe Transport of Ventilated Patients in the Prone Position

Prone positioning during mechanical ventilation in patients with severe respiratory failure is an important intervention with both physiologic and empiric rational for its use. This session will describe how a large air and land critical care transport system developed and successfully implemented a program to safely transport mechanically ventilated patients in the prone position at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The methods used and lessons learned from this initiative may be useful to other programs faced with the need to transport this patient population.