Implications
The results from this pilot study provide evidence-based information beneficial to the clinical setting and have implications for an effective rescue intervention for COVID-19 positive patients in respiratory distress that can be performed independently. As research expands in the area that directly addresses the health crisis and what hospitals and the multidisciplinary team can do using a simple measure to alleviate respiratory symptoms associated with the virus and avoidance of extraneous interventions, we suggest a more comprehensive, protocolized, and guided study that focuses on short-term and long-term effects from stomach and lateral proning in patients who are respiratory compromised.