Authors’ response to: How should we best determine the need for in-flight oxygen in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension
- Dinesh Shrikrishna1,2,
- Luke Howard3,
- Robina K Coker1,4,
- on behalf of the Air Travel Working Party of the British Thoracic Society Standards of Care Committee
- 1National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
- 2Department of Respiratory Medicine, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, UK
- 3National Pulmonary Hypertension Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
- 4National Heart and Lung Institute, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
- Correspondence to Dr Robina K Coker, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London W12 0HS, UK; robina.coker{at}imperial.ac.uk
- Received 5 February 2013
- Accepted 8 February 2013
- Published Online First 7 March 2013
We thank Burns et al1 for their comments on the updated British Thoracic Society recommendations for managing passengers with respiratory disease planning air travel.2 In particular, a central aim of the recommendations was to promote research in this field, and we therefore commend their recent …
