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Guideline for Emergency Oxygen Use in Adult Patients: Executive Summary October 2008 www.brit-thoracic.org.uk British Thoracic Society

Guideline for Emergency Oxygen Use in Adult Patients ......Enquiries to: [email protected] British Thoracic Society, 17 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2PL Telephone: 020 7831 8778

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Page 1: Guideline for Emergency Oxygen Use in Adult Patients ......Enquiries to: bts@brit-thoracic.org.uk British Thoracic Society, 17 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2PL Telephone: 020 7831 8778

Guideline for Emergency Oxygen Use in Adult Patients:

Executive Summary

October 2008

www.brit-thoracic.org.uk

British Thoracic Society

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The

Inte

nsive Care Society

The BTS Guideline for Emergency Oxygen Use in Adult Patients is endorsed by: Association of Respiratory Nurse Specialists,

Association for Respiratory Technology and Physiology, College of Emergency Medicine, British Cardiovascular Society, British

Geriatrics Society, British Paramedic Association, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, General Practice Airways Group (GPIAG),

Intensive Care Society, Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee, Resuscitation Council (UK), Royal College of Anaesthetists,

Royal College of General Practitioners, Royal College of Midwives, Royal College of Nursing, Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh),

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Royal College of Physicians (London), Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great

Britain, Society for Acute Medicine. Also supported by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

The Royal College of Anaesthetists

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BTS guideline for emergency oxygen use in adult patients

This publication comprises the Executive Summary of the BTS Guideline for Emergency Oxygen Use in Adult Patients.Thorax 2008 (October), 63 (Supplement 6)

The full guideline can be found at:www.brit-thoracic.org.uk/emergencyoxygen

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BTS guideline for emergency oxygen use in adult patients

The full Guideline plus the appendices listed above can be found at:www.brit-thoracic.org.uk/emergencyoxygen

Enquiries to: [email protected]

British Thoracic Society, 17 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2PLTelephone: 020 7831 8778 Fax: 020 7831 8766

www.brit-thoracic.org.uk