%0 Journal Article %A Alok Kumar Sahoo %A Swagata Tripathy %A Santosh Kumar Singh %T Prone ventilation in a patient with severe ARDS having a floating sternum %D 2019 %R 10.1136/bcr-2018-227892 %J BMJ Case Reports %P e227892 %V 12 %N 3 %X Prone ventilation is used to manage patients with refractory hypoxia in the critical care unit. Complex chest trauma and chest drains have been a considered relative contraindication to prone ventilation. To the best of our knowledge, it is hitherto unreported in patients having traumatic floating sternum and acute respiratory distress. We present a brief case report of a patient with floating sternum (complete disruption of sternum) managed successfully by prone position ventilation. %U https://casereports.bmj.com/content/bmjcr/12/3/e227892.full.pdf