Managing passengers with stable respiratory disease planning air travel: British Thoracic Society recommendations

• Published in: Thorax Vol. 66; no. Suppl 1; pp. i1 - i30
• Main Authors: Ahmedzai, S, Balfour-Lynn, I M, Bewick, T, Buchdahl, R, Coker, R K, Cummin, A R, Gradwell, D P, Howard, L, Innes, J A, Johnson, A O C, Lim, E, Lim, Wei Shen, McKinlay, K P, Partridge, M R, Popplestone, M, Pozniak, A, Robson, A, Shovlin, C L, Shrikrishna, D, Simonds, A, Tait, P, Thomas, M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London BMJ Publishing Group 01.09.2011; BMJ Publishing Group LTD
• Subjects: Adult; Aerospace Medicine; Air travel; Aircraft; Airports; Altitude; Asthma - therapy; Atmospheric Pressure; Aviation; Biological and medical sciences; Cardiology. Vascular system; Cardiovascular Diseases - therapy; Child; Child, Preschool; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Comorbidity; Emergency medical care; Evidence-Based Medicine; Family physicians; Humans; Hyperventilation; Infant; Infection - therapy; Literature reviews; Lung diseases; Lung Diseases - diagnosis; Lung Diseases - physiopathology; Lung Diseases - therapy; Medical personnel; Medical sciences; Nebulizers and Vaporizers; Oxygen - administration & dosage; Patients; Physical Fitness; Physiology; Pneumology; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - therapy; Respiration, Artificial; Respiratory diseases; Respiratory Function Tests; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors; Sea level; Societies, Medical; Travel; Treatment Outcome; United Kingdom; United Kingdom > UK; Travel; Respiratory disease; Anesthesia; Thorax; Air; Circulatory system; Passenger; Planning; Society; Cardiology; Recommendation
• ISSN: 0040-6376; 1468-3296
• DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200295