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BTS Guidelines are available from the links below.  Information about the BTS Guideline Production process and resources for Guideline Groups are available in the Guideline Development Centre. 

The BTS Guideline Production Manual (2011), which outlines the Society's policies and processes in relation to the preparation of BTS Guidelines is available here.

January 2012
  
BTS Guidelines

 

Guideline title Publication
date		 Review date: to establish whether revision is required Status
Managing passengers with respiratory disease planning air travel 2011 2014 VALID 
British Guideline on the management of asthma  2011  2013 VALID
Standards of care for occupational asthma  2008, 2011  2014 VALID
Guidelines for non-CF bronchiectasis 2010 2011 VALID - work on an update will begin in 2012
Guidelines on diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy  2001  2008 VALID - update due for publication 2012
Guideline for advanced diagnostic and therapeutic flexible bronchoscopy in adults 2011 2014 VALID
Guidelines for the management of COPD 1997 n/a SUPERSEDED by NICE COPD Guideline (2010)
Recommendations for the management of cough in adults  2007  2011 VALID
Recommendations for the assessment and management of cough in children 2008 2012 VALID
Guidance on the D-Dimer test  2006 N/A   
Guidelines on the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of diffuse parenchymal lung disease in adults  1999  n/a SUPERSEDED - see ILD below
Guidelines on respiratory aspects of fitness for diving 2003 2012 VALID - reviewed in 2010
Guideline for emergency oxygen use in adult patients 2008 2011 VALID - update due for publication in 2013
Guideline for home oxygen in adults In preparation - Guideline in preparation -publication due for 2013/14
Guideline for home oxygen in children 2009 2012 VALID
Intermediate care - Hospital at Home in COPD: Guideline 2007 2011 VALID
Pandemic flu: clinical management of patients with an influenza-like illness during an influenza pandemic  2007  2011  VALID
Interstitial lung disease guideline  2008  2011

 VALID
Please see additional guidance here.  The NICE Guideline on Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis will be published in 2013.
Recommendations to respiratory physicians for organising the care of patients with lung cancer 1998 n/a SUPERSEDED by NICE Lung Cancer Guideline
Guideline for the selection of patients with lung cancer for surgery 2001 n/a SUPERCEDED
Guideline for the radical management of patients with lung cancer 2010 2013 VALID
Statement on malignant mesothelioma 2007 2011 VALID
Guidelines on current best practice for nebuliser treatment  1997  n/a SUPERSEDED - by more recent publications including the ERS Guideline on the use of nebulisers (2001)
Guidelines for the respiratory management of children with neuromuscular weakness In preparation - Due for publication 2012
Non-invasive ventilation in COPD: management of acute type 2 respiratory failure 2008 2011 VALID
Non-invasive ventilation in acute respiratory failure  2002  2010  VALID - see below
Guidelines for the ventilatory management of hypercapnic respiratory failure In preparation - Due for publication 2013
Management of opportunist Mycobacterial infections  2000  2010  VALID - work will begin on an udpated Guideline in 2012
Guidelines for the physiotherapy management of the adult, medical, spontaneously breathing patient  2009 2012   VALID
Guidelines for the management of pleural disease 2010 2013 VALID 
Guidelines for the management of pleural infection in children 2005 2011 VALID - reviewed in 2008
Guidelines for the management of community acquired pneumonia in adults  2009  2012  VALID
Guidelines for the management of community acquired pneumonia in children 2011 2014 VALID 
Guidelines for the management of suspected acute pulmonary embolism  2003  2010 VALID- BTS does not intend to produce a revision of the 2003 guidelines as a NICE guideline on venous thromboembolic diseases is in preparation.
Guidelines for the investigation and management of pulmonary nodules In preparation - Work on a new guideline begain 2012, with a likely publication date of late 2013.
Statement on pulmonary rehabilitation  2001  2010  VALID - Updated guideline due for publication 2012/13
Radiologically Guided Lung Biopsy Guideline 2003 2013 VALID - reviewed 2011
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Guideline  2004  2014 VALID
Respiratory Tract Infections 2008  2012  Published by NICE
Management of obstructive sleep apnoea  2003  N/A Published by SIGN
Statement on criteria for specialist referral, admission, discharge and follow up for patients with respiratory disease 2008 2012 VALID
Recommendations for assessing risk and for managing Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and disease in patients due to start anti-TNF α treatment  2005 2010   VALID
Control and prevention of Tuberculosis in the UK 2000 n/a SUPERSEDED - by NICE Tuberculosis Guideline
Prevention and management of tuberculosis in patients with renal disease 2010 2013 VALID
  
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