PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Alok Kumar Sahoo
AU  - Swagata Tripathy
AU  - Santosh Kumar Singh
TI  - Prone ventilation in a patient with severe ARDS having a floating sternum
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2018-227892
DP  - 2019 Mar 01
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - e227892
VI  - 12
IP  - 3
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/12/3/e227892.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/12/3/e227892.full
SO  - BMJ Case Reports2019 Mar 01; 12
AB  - 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.