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Before the pandemic, Rucker said, a handful of ICU staffers would often move patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome on their stomachs to help them breathe, a labor-intensive practice called proning.

His treatment included ventilation, tracheostomy, kidney dialysis and proning - lying on your front to help with breathing.

He spent much of his time on his stomach, called proning, which allows for more expansion of the lungs and better oxygenation.

One important way to help patients in respiratory distress involves putting someone on their belly, known as proning.

And practitioners now know that proning — placing patients face down — can keep airways open longer, which has decreased the need for ventilators, said Mercedes Carnethon, vice chair of the department of preventive medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.