Society guideline links: Respiratory disease in pregnancy

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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International

●Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA): Global strategy for asthma management and prevention, update (2023)

●World Health Organization (WHO): Managing complications in pregnancy and childbirth – A guide for midwives and doctors, 2nd edition (2017)

Canada

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Management guidelines for obstetric patients and neonates born to mothers with suspected or probable severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) (2017)

United States

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Committee statement on influenza in pregnancy – Prevention and treatment (2024)

●Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP): Recommendations for the prevention and control of seasonal influenza with vaccines – United States, 2023-24 influenza season (2023)

●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Recommendations for obstetric health care providers related to use of antiviral medications in the treatment and prevention of influenza (2022)

●CDC: Guidance for the prevention and control of influenza in the peri- and postpartum settings (2020)

●CDC: Influenza (flu) vaccine and pregnancy (2019)

●Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment, chemoprophylaxis, and institutional outbreak management of seasonal influenza, update (2018)

●US Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Treatment of influenza during pregnancy (2016)

●ACOG: Practice bulletin on asthma in pregnancy (2008)

Europe

●European Respiratory Society (ERS)/Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ): Statement on the management of reproduction and pregnancy in women with airways diseases(2020)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Quality standard on intrapartum care – Existing medical conditions and obstetric complications (2020)

●British Thoracic Society (BTS) and Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN): British guideline on the management of asthma (2003, revised 2019)

●NICE: Guideline on intrapartum care for women with existing medical conditions or obstetric complications and their babies (2019)

Australia–New Zealand

●National Asthma Council Australia (NACA): Australian asthma handbook – Managing asthma during pregnancy (2022)

●Department for Health and Wellbeing, Government of South Australia (SA Health): Community acquired pneumonia (adults) clinical guideline (2021)

●European Respiratory Society (ERS)/Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ): Statement on the management of reproduction and pregnancy in women with airways diseases(2020)

●SA Health: Influenza – Guidance for clinicians on managing pregnant women with suspected influenza (2019)

●SA Health: South Australian perinatal practice guidelines on asthma in pregnancy (2012)