Society guideline links: Dyspnea

Introduction — 

This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately:

●(See "Society guideline links: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Asthma in adolescents and adults".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Asthma in children".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Severe asthma in adolescents and adults".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Occupational asthma".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Adult with chest pain in the emergency department".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Palliative care".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Palliative care for advanced lung disease".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Interstitial lung disease".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Pulmonary rehabilitation".)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't initiate long-term maintenance inhalers in stable patients with suspected COPD if they have not had confirmation of post-bronchodilator airflow obstruction with spirometry (2023)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't use oxygen therapy to treat non-hypoxic dyspnea (2021)

●Cancer Care Ontario (CCO): Guidelines on management of dyspnea (breathlessness) in patients with cancer (2019)

●Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS): Clinical practice guideline on managing dyspnea in patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (2011)

United States

●American College of Physicians (ACP): A clinical guideline on appropriate use of point-of-care ultrasonography in patients with acute dyspnea in emergency department or inpatient settings (2021)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on dyspnea-suspected cardiac origin (ischemia already excluded) (2021)

●American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO): Guideline for management of dyspnea in advanced cancer (2021)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on acute respiratory illness in immunocompromised patients (2019)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on acute respiratory illness in immunocompetent patients (2018)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on chronic dyspnea-noncardiovascular origin (2018)

●National Consensus Project (NCP): Clinical practice guidelines for quality palliative care, 4th edition (2018)

●Improving Palliative Care in the ICU (IPAL-ICU): A report on palliative care in the ICU – Relief of pain, dyspnea, and thirst (2014)

●American Thoracic Society (ATS): Official statement – Mechanisms, assessment, and management of dyspnea, update (2012)

Europe

●European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO): Clinical practice guidelines for the management of breathlessness in patients with cancer (2020)

United Kingdom

●Scottish Palliative Care Guidelines: Breathlessness

Australia–New Zealand

●Choosing Wisely Australia: Do not use oxygen therapy to treat non-hypoxic dyspnoea (reviewed 2016)

Japan

●Japanese Society for Palliative Medicine (JSPM): Intensive palliative care for delirium, dyspnea, and pain ─ Before the diagnosis of the symptoms as being refractory (2019)