title: [Continuous lateral rotation or kinetic therapy: an update of knowledge].
abstract: Acute lung injury and, when extreme, acute respiratory distress syndrome, are thought to be expression of a diffuse and overwhelming inflammatory reaction of the pulmonary capillary membrane to a variety of causes. The ventilatory support is essential in this patients. In the last years we know the significance of the postural treatment in this type of patients through the prone positioning. The continuous lateral rotation therapy or kinetic therapy (KT) is the new manner by other positioning beside the technological advances. Lowly it's introducing in our setting. The follow article would respound the next questions: What's the KT? How must to make the KT? What recommendations have been offered by specialists from the complications? Which is it efectivity?
authors.affiliation: DUE Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos. Hospital de Terrassa. Terrassa. Barcelona. Spain. carles.calaf@lycos.es
authors.forename: Carles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Calaf Tost
authors.forename: Emma
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Comas Miquel
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009079:Mucociliary Clearance; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities / Q000451:nursing*; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration; D016684:Prone Position; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Q000451:nursing* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D015656:Respiratory Mechanics; D012307:Risk Factors; D012399:Rotation; D013997:Time Factors