British Thoracic Society emergency oxygen audits
- B R O'Driscoll1,
- L S Howard2,
- C Bucknall3,
- S A Welham4,
- A G Davison5,
- On behalf of the British Thoracic Society
- 1Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Salford Royal Foundation NHS Trust, Salford, UK
- 2Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
- 3Department of Respiratory Medicine, Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, UK
- 4British Thoracic Society, London, UK
- 5Department of Respiratory Medicine, Southend University Hospital, Southend, UK
- Correspondence to B R O'Driscoll, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Salford Royal University Hospital, Salford M6 8HD, UK; ronan.o'driscoll{at}srft.nhs.uk
- Received 23 February 2011
- Accepted 4 March 2011
- Published Online First 17 April 2011
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Competing interests None.
Abstract
The British Thoracic Society (BTS) guideline for emergency oxygen use in adult patients was commissioned by the BTS and developed in conjunction with 21 other colleges and societies prior to publication in 2008. One of the specific aims of the Guideline Development Group was to audit the use of oxygen in UK hospitals before the guideline was published and at intervals afterwards.
- allergic lung disease
- asthma
- short burst oxygen therapy
- lung physiology
- primary pulmonary hypertension
- pulmonary embolism
- COPD exacerbations
- perception of asthma/breathlessness
- pneumonia
- respiratory infection
- asthma mechanisms
- cough/mechanisms/pharmacology
- COPD epidemiology
- COPD pathology
- COPD pharmacology
- emphysema
- health economist
Footnotes
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Further details of the audit are available on the BTS website at http://www.brit-thoracic.org.uk/clinical-information/emergency-oxygen/emergency-oxygen-use-audit-tool.aspx This report is submitted on behalf of the British Thoracic Society.
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Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
