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Table 1 Study characteristics

From: Effects of prone positioning on ARDS outcomes of trauma and surgical patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Study/year

Country

Total number

Interventions/Controls

Cochrane risk-of-bias tool for randomized trials

(ROBINS-I)

Participants

Mean PF ratio at the entry of study

Prone duration per session/

Total prone time/

Number of sessions (h)

Retrospective cohort study

Erhard 1998

Germany

47

28/19

Moderate

Trauma

Unknown

13 [10–15] h/session; 6.1 [1–22] total prone days

Eremenko 2000

Russia

72

36/36

Moderate

ARDS after cardiac syndrome X

Unknown

4–12 h/session; not mentioned total prone day

Davis 2007

USA

61

17/48

Serious

Trauma and general surgery

149 ± 8

3.25 h/session; 6 times/day for 5 days

Gaudry 2017

France

98

36/62

Moderate

Recent abdominal surgery (< 7 days)

91 ± 39

Mean total first prone 15.8 ± 10.4 h; second session 19.2 ± 10.3 h; 1 [1–2] sessions

Akatsuka 2020

Japan

51

24/27

Serious

Abdominal surgery

118 ± 41

16 h/session; 1.5 ± 0.5 times

Prospective randomized control trial

Watanabe 2002

Japan

16

8/8

High

Post transthoracic esophagectomy

166.0 ± 24.9

6 h/session; not mentioned total prone day

Voggenreiter 2005

Germany

40

21/19

High

Multiple trauma patient with ISS at least 16

107 ± 42

11 ± 5 h/session; mean of 7 ± 4 times

Prospective experimental study

Voggenreiter 1999

Germany

22

Moderate

Multiple trauma with blunt chest trauma

Unknown

8 h/session; 9.0 ± 1.12 sessions

Johannigman 2000

USA

20

Moderate

Trauma

148 ± 30

10.3 ± 1.2 h/session; maximum 6 sessions

Retrospective experimental study

Fridrich 1996

Austria

20

Moderate

All trauma-induced ARDS

126.4 ± 8.6

20 h/session; total mean 8 ± 4 days

Johannigman 2001

USA

16

Moderate

Trauma and postoperative surgery

165 ± 18

6.3 ± 1 h/session; 4 sessions

Maillet 2008

France

16

Moderate

Postoperative cardiac surgery

87 ± 26

18 h/session (range, 14–27); not mentioned total prone day

Hale 2012

USA

18

Moderate

Burn

87 ± 37

16 h/session; total 3 [1–6]

Wardenberg 2016

Germany

127

Moderate

Postoperative cardiac surgery

115 ± 46

12 h/session; not mentioned total prone day

Hernández-López 2019

Mexico

7

Moderate

All postoperative patients

83.93 ± 19.12

Total prone duration 57.2 ± 17.2 h (total 3 days)

Saha 2020

Germany

24

Moderate

Postoperative cardiac surgery

Unknown

12 h [12–16] h/session; not mentioned total prone day