As you recover from open-heart surgery -- in the hospital and then at home -- sleeping soundly can be a challenge. It's important to find a comfortable sleep position that works for you. Also, knowing ...

Prone positioning improves oxygenation and decreases mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). 1 This print supplement to the video reviews the procedure for placing ...

One of the questions I get asked is: “What’s the best position to sleep in?” There’s an old doctor joke where the patient says, “It hurts when I press here. What should I do?” The doctor says he has a ...

It’s one of the lessons from the hospital frontlines and it was reinforced during the recent coronavirus pandemic— positioning matters. A significant percentage of pneumonia patients who were placed ...

In this study we had a selective group of patients who had supine reflux on esophageal pH test with associated nocturnal reflux symptoms. Bed head elevation was done during the night-time from 22.00 ...