Within the strategies established in the last 10 years for lung protection in mechanical ventilation for the development of VILI or lung injury induced by mechanical ventilation, multiple studies have been carried out to identify the risk suffered by patients who have to undergo various strategies of invasive artificial respiration. Inclusion criteria: Inclusion criteria included adults over 18 years of age who were subjected to invasive mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit, in whom mechanical power was measured and the outcomes presented were evidenced. Methodology: The objective of the scoping review was to identify and present the available evidence on the relationship between mechanical power and outcomes in mechanically ventilated adult intensive care patients. By reviewing the literature available in the databases PubMed, Scielo, Lilacs, Epistemonikos, CINAHL and Embase. Results: In the present scoping review we identified a total of 30 studies that addressed the calculation of mechanical power and its relationship with various outcomes in intensive care. Of the total number of studies, 18 were primary studies, while the remaining 12 were secondary studies. The results described above show the variability of the equations used to calculate mechanical power, together with the heterogeneity present in the populations and the cut-off points referred to.
