Objective: To explore the effects of prone and supine position ventilation combined with recruitment maneuver on patients with severe pneumonia. Methods: 90 cases were randomly divided into three groups, including prone position group, supine position group, prone position combined supine position group. Results: Compared with data before recruitment maneuver, CI and CVP were decreased significantly after recruitment maneuver 5 minutes in both supine position and prone position group(P<0.05), then they returned to the base level an hour later,but significant differences in PaO2/FiO2 were found between before and after recruitment maneuver when patients' position was changed, and it suggest that recruitment maneuver improved oxygenation more effectively in prone compared with supine position. Conclusions: Prone and supine position ventilation combined with recruitment maneuver significantly improves oxygenation in severe pneumonia patients,but slightly changes hemodynamics. |