Respiratory and airway guidelines

Airway guidelines

• Multidisciplinary guidelines for the management of tracheostomy and laryngectomy airway emergencies (NTSP 2012)
• NAP4 major airway complications guidelines (2013)
• Practice guidelines for the management of the difficult airway (ASA 2013)
• The Vortex approach to securing an airway 2013
• The difficult airway with recommendations for management – Part 1 – Difficult tracheal intubation encountered in an unconscious/induced patient (Canadian airway focus group 2013)
• The difficult airway with recommendations for management – Part 2 – The anticipated difficult airway (CAFG 2013)
• Difficult Airway Society – extubation guidelines (2015)
  • Basic
  • Low risk
  • High risk
• Intubation guidelines – Default strategy for intubation (DAS 2015)
• Difficult intubation guidelines (DAS 2015)

Respiratory failure per se

• GStT hospitals ICU severe respiratory failure protocol

Oxygen

• Emergency oxygen use in adult patients (BTS 2008, reviewed 2011 to be updated 2016) or (pdf here)

Pneumonia

• Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society Consensus Guidelines on the management of community-acquired pneumonia in Adults (IDSA/BTS 2007)
• Guidelines for the Management of Community Acquired Pneumonia in Adults (2015 amendment of BTS Update 2009)
• Respiratory tract infections – antibiotic prescribing (BTS 2008)
• Management of Adults With Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia (2016 IDSA and ATS) 
• International ERS/ESICM/ESCMID/ALAT guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia (2017)

PJP

• Opportunistic infections in HIV guideline – CDC 2009

Pleural disease, pneumothroax and drains

• Pleural disease, management – BTS 2010
• Management of spontaneous pneumothorax (BTS 2010)

Ventilator/Healthcare-associated pneumonia/VAE/IVAC

• Evidence-based assessments of diagnostic tests for VAP (ACCP 2000)
• Technical patient safety solutions for ventilator-associated pneumonia in adults 2008
• Intramuscular diaphragm stimulation for ventilator-dependent chronic respiratory failure due to neurological disease (NICE 2009)
• Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Hospital-acquired, Ventilator-associated, and Healthcare-associated Pneumonia (ATS/IDSA 2005)
• Ventilator associated events – CDC 2014

Asthma

• NICE Quality Shttp://guidance.nice.org.uk/QS25tandards on Asthma (2103) (pdf here)
• General principles for the diagnosis and management of asthma (Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium)
• BTS/SIGN Asthma guidelines (2016) AND THE   Quick reference guide
• GINA global strategy for asthma management 2018, and their quick reference card (2017)

COPD

• NICE Quality Standards on COPD 
• COPD – Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (San Diego Work Loss Data Institute) (2009)

ARDS (and TRALI)

• ARDS Berlin definition 2012
• ARDSNET mechanical ventilation protocol summary
• Guidelines on the management of ARDS (FICM and ICS 2018)
• A consensus redefinition of transfusion‐related acute lung injury (april 2019)

NIV

• Canadian Critical Care Society Noninvasive Ventilation Guidelines Group – NIV in the Acute Care Setting’.
• International Consensus Conferences in Intensive Care Medicine: Non-invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Failure (ATS, ERS, ESICM 2000)

Tracheostomy

• Translaryngeal tracheostomy: guidance NICE 2013
• ‘On the right trach’ UK report and recommendations (NCEPOD 2014)
• Standards for care of the adult patient with temporary tracheostomy (ICS 2014)

Pulmonary embolism and other thromboembolism

• NICE Quality Standards on Venous Thromboembolic Diseases
• Venous thromboembolism – reducing the risk (CG89) – NICE 2018
• Venous thromboembolism diagnosis and treatment (ICSI) (2012)
• Guidelines on the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism (ESC 2014)

Interstitial Lung Disease

• Interstitial lung disease (San DIego Work Loss Data Institute) (2009)
• Do-not-do recommendation (extract from NICE guidance on IPF 2013)

Ventilation

• Endotracheal suctioning of mechanically ventilated patients with artificial airways 2010

Muscle relaxation

• Clinical practice guidelines for sustained neuromuscular blockade in the adult critically ill patient ACCM/SCCM 2002

Weaning

• Evidence-Based Guidelines for Weaning and Discontinuing Ventilatory Support ACCP/AARC/ACCM 2001

ECMO

• Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe acute respiratory failure in adults (IPG391)
• Position paper for the organization of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation programs for acute respiratory failure in adult patients (International ECMO Network 2014)

Monitoring

• Capnograhphy – ICS

Bronchoscopy

• BTS guidelines for advanced diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy (BTS 2013)

Physiotherapy

• Physiotherapy guideline BTS guidelines 2009