9. Abbreviations.

Abbreviations

ADL: activity of daily living; AECC: American‐European Consensus Conference; AHRF: acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure; ALI: acute lung injury; APACHE score: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation score; APHIS: a priori heterogeneity adjusted information size; ARDS: acute respiratory distress syndrome; BMJ: British Medical Journal; CI: confidence interval; CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature; cm: centimetre; CMV: conventional mechanical ventilation; COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; ECMO: extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; FiO2: fraction of inspired oxygen; HFOV: high‐frequency oscillatory ventilation; ICU: intensive care unit; I:E ratio: inspiratory:expiratory ratio; INO: inhaled nitric oxide; ITT: intention‐to‐treat analysis; LBHIS: low bias heterogeneity adjusted information size; LILACS: Latin American Caribbean Health Sciences Literature; LRM: lung recruitment manoeuvre; MAP: mean arterial pressure; min: minutes; mL/kg: millilitres per kilogram; MPAP: mean arterial pulmonary pressure; ng: nanogram; NO: nitric oxide; NO2: nitrogen dioxide; PaCO2: partial pressure of carbon dioxide in arterial blood; PaO2: partial pressure of oxygen in arterial blood; PAOP: pulmonary artery occlusion pressure; PEEP: positive end‐expiratory pressure; P/F ratio: PaO2/FiO2; ppm: parts per million; PVR: pulmonary vascular resistance; QWB: quality of well being scale; RCT: randomized controlled trial; RD: risk difference; RR: risk ratio; RRI: relative risk increase; RRR: relative risk reduction; SVR: systemic vascular resistance; TSA: trial sequential analysis; WMD: weighted mean difference

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