Updated BTS Recommendations for Managing Passengers with Respiratory Disease Planning Air Travel
The updated BTS Recommendations for managing passengers with respiratory disease planning air travel were published in Thorax in September 2011, and can be downloaded here.
The associated Thorax editorial is available here.
Patient information is available here.
Readers may wish to consult the original 2002/2004 documents for background information, some of which has been omitted from the latest guidance in order to keep this to a reasonable length.
Managing Passengers with Respiratory Disease Planning Air Travel revised Recommendations - SUPERCEDED
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Managing Passengers with Respiratory Disease Planning Air Travel
British Thoracic Society Recommendations 2004 Summary for Primary Care
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Managing Passengers with Respiratory Disease Planning Air Travel - SUPERCEDED
British Thoracic Society Recommendations
The Air Travel Working Party, a sub-Committee of the BTS Standards of Care Committee has produced a 2004 updated document for Managing Passengers with Respiratory Disease Planning Air Travel, as part of the commitment to provide interim guideline reviews between major rewrites.
A Summary of the revisions made since 2002 can be downloaded here