Ibrahim 2007.
| Methods | Parallel RCT of prone and supine positions | |
| Participants | Included: 34 children aged 8 weeks to 10 years on mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory failure Excluded: participants with cardiac or neurological disease, chest or abdominal trauma, neurological surgery, unstable circulatory system or receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation Median age: 12 months; FiO2: 0.5; diagnosis: sepsis 13, pneumonia 12, inhalation injury 5, drowning 2 Setting: paediatric ICU, Saudi Arabia |
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| Interventions | Prone and supine for 20 hours, both groups also received inhaled nitric oxide | |
| Outcomes | OI; PaO2/FiO2 at 1 hour and 20 hours | |
| Notes | Outcome data were also collected at 24 hours, however, as children in the prone group were changed to the supine position at 20 hours, these data were not included | |
| Risk of bias | ||
| Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Not stated |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Not stated |
| Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes | Unclear risk | Outcome assessment was not blinded but outcomes were not subjective |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | Unclear risk | Loss to follow‐up 2/34; one because PaO2 improved and the other because of clinical deterioration |