Society guideline links: Supplemental oxygen

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: Assessment of oxygenation and gas exchange" and "Society guideline links: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease".)

International

●Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD): Global strategy for the diagnosis, management, and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, update (2024)

●BMJ Rapid Recommendations: Oxygen therapy for acutely ill medical patients – A clinical practice guideline (2018)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't use oxygen therapy to treat non-hypoxic dyspnea (2020)

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Practice point on use of high-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy in infants and children (2018)

United States

●American Thoracic Society (ATS): Clinical practice guideline on home oxygen therapy for adults with chronic lung disease (2020)

●ATS: Clinical practice guideline on home oxygen therapy for children (2019)

●American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC): Clinical practice guideline on oxygen therapy in the home or alternate site health care facility, revision and update (2007)

Europe

●European Society of Cardiology (ESC)/European Respiratory Society (ERS): Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension (2022)

United Kingdom

●British Thoracic Society (BTS): Clinical statement on air travel for passengers with respiratory disease (2022)

●BTS: Guideline for oxygen use in adults in healthcare and emergency settings (2017)

●BTS: Quality standards on home oxygen (2017)

●BTS/Intensive Care Society (ICS): Guidelines for the ventilatory management of acute hypercapnic respiratory failure in adults (2016)

Australia–New Zealand

●Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ): Position statement on acute oxygen use in adults – 'Swimming between the flags' (2022)

●Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation (ANZCOR): Guideline on the use of oxygen in emergencies (2021)

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

Japan

●[In Japanese] Choosing Wisely Japan: Home oxygen therapy after discharge – Stop advance in one day? (2016, updated 2017)