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Working for Healthier Lungs

The British Thoracic Society is a registered charity. Our objective is to improve the standards of care of people who have respiratory diseases. Welcome to our website.

This website receives many thousands of visits a day and has been completely revised since the beginning of 2008. Visitors are most interested in the pages that contain BTS Guidelines and associated audit tools and educational activities, and our Winter and Summer Meetings pages. Guidelines, audit tools and related information are all now contained in the Clinical Information section listed on the left toolbar, by disease/treatment area. Please visit the Education Hub for details of the Society's short courses and Summer and Winter Meetings, and to book on-line.

Our web pages also contain information of interest to people who have respiratory diseases, and we hope that the general visitor will find useful information, as well as links to dedicated sites run by lung charities.

Please explore the site by using the buttons on the left and let us have your feedback via the "Contact Us" button at the top of the page.

Members will find more information by logging on to the members' site.

Latest News

Chest drain insertion: improving patient safety
BTS has produced guidance for the implementation of local trust policies for the safe insertion of chest drains in adults and, with the BPRS, for the safe insertion of chest drains in children. These documents are available here. Presentations given at the symposium on “Chest drain insertion – improving patient safety” at the BTS Winter Meeting on Wednesday 3 December are available here.

Emergency oxygen use in adult patients
The Guideline for emergency oxygen use in adult patients was published in the October 2008 issue of Thorax and is available here.

A Guide to Coding of Respiratory Care
This report provides useful background to the revision of Respiratory Healthcare Resource Groups as well as practical advice on coding respiratory activity here.

Events Online

BTS Winter Meeting 3–5 December 2008, London

Many thanks to all who contributed to the 2008 BTS Winter Meeting which ended on Friday 5 December. This was the biggest Meeting to date (2,032 delegates). Delegates who booked on the day who have not yet received their receipts and attendance certificates will have these sent by post by the end of this week. The 2009 Winter Meeting will be on 2-4 December. The abstract deadline will be midnight on 30 July 2009. The abstract submision form will be available by mid-February 2009.

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