Background:

prone Position is a well-established evidence-based clinical practice in patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation. Little evidence in non-intubated patients is known. Due to the increasing rate of acute respiratory distress syndrome, the need to know the effectiveness in non-intubated patients has emerged.

Objective:

to know the effectiveness of prone position in the treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome in non-intubated adults.

Methodology:

Systematic reviews based on the manual of Joanna Briggs Institute and carried out using PICO strategy. Research conducted in August 2021 in the access platforms Web of Science, PubMed, and EBSCO Host. Selection was done after elimination of duplicates, title reading, reading of abstracts, and full texts according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses diagram.

Results:

741 results were identified, and seven were included in the review.

Conclusion:

Early prone position is advantageous in non-intubated patients with mild and moderate acute respiratory distress syndrome. A risk intervention in non-intubated patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Mortality/survival, physiological/clinical, adverse events/effects and functioning outcomes were identified as predictors of success/failure of prone position.