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PDFChest clinic
Audit update
British Thoracic Society emergency oxygen audits
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