ArticleEmergency medicine international2020
Prone versus Supine Position Ventilation in Adult Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
Article in Emergency medicine international, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Research without prior consent procedure and intervention effect on mortality in critical care: a meta-epidemiological study of randomized controlled trials.Critical care (London, England) · 2025Pooled it
- Guideline on positioning and early mobilisation in the critically ill by an expert panel.Intensive care medicine · 2024Guideline
- Awake prone positioning for patients with COVID-19 pneumonia in intensive care unit: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Pressure Injuries Related to the Positioning of Surgical Patients in the Operating Room and Identification of Associated Risk Factors: A Cross-Sectional Study.International wound journal · 2025Article
- Prone Positioning in Mechanically Ventilated COVID-19 Patients: Timing of Initiation and Outcomes.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Postoperative hypoxemia for patients undergoing Stanford type A aortic dissection.World journal of clinical cases · 2023Review
- Nurse Perspectives on Prone Positioning for ARDS Patient in the ICU: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study of Facilitator and Barrier.SAGE open nursingArticle
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Abstract
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to compare the efficacy and safety of prone versus supine position ventilation for adult acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients. The electronic databases of PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library were systematically searched from their inception up to September 2020. The relative risks (RRs) and weighted mean differences (WMDs) with corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were employed to calculate pooled outcomes using the random-effects models. Twelve randomized controlled trials that had recruited a total of 2264 adults with ARDS were selected for the final meta-analysis. The risk of mortality in patients who received prone position ventilation was 13% lower than for those who received supine ventilation, but this effect was not statistically significant (RR: 0.87; 95% CI: 0.75-1.00;
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