Date last updated 16th Feb 2021

Clinical guidelines

Asthma

• GINA: interim guidance about COVID-19 and asthma (2020)

• GINA: pocket guide for asthma management and prevention (2020)

• GINA: a fundamental change in asthma management (2019)

• NICE guideline asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management (updated 2020)

• BTS/SIGN guideline: management of asthma (2020)

• ERS/ATS guideline: management of severe asthma (updated 2019)

• National Asthma Council: Australian asthma handbook (2020)

• Queensland Ambulance Service: asthma (2020)

Bronchiectasis

• BTS guideline: bronchiectasis in adults (2019)

• ERS guideline: management of adult bronchiectasis (2020)

• NICE guideline: bronchiectasis (non-cystic fibrosis), acute exacerbation: antimicrobial prescribing (2018)

• Government of Western Australia guideline: protracted bacterial bronchitis, chronic suppurative lung disease and bronchiectasis (paediatric empiric) (updated 2020)

• The Saudi Thoracic Society guideline: diagnosis and management of noncystic fibrosis bronchiectasis (2017)

Bronchoscopy

• Joint Indian Chest Society/ National College of Chest Physicians guideline: diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy in adults (2019)

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Lung Foundation Australia: COPD-X guideline (2020)

• Lung Foundation Australia: COPD-X concise guide (updated 2020)

• GOLD: pocket guide to COPD diagnosis, management and prevention (2020)

• NICE guideline: COPD in over 16s: diagnosis and management (2019)

• ATS guideline: initiating pharmacologic treatment in tobacco-dependent adults (2020)

• ATS guideline: pharmacologic management of COPD (2020)

• ERS/ ATS guideline: prevention of COPD exacerbations (2017)

• ERS/ ATS guideline: management of COPD exacerbations (2017)

• ERS guideline: long-term home non-invasive ventilation for management of COPD (2019)

• EAL COPD evidence-based nutrition practice guideline (2019)

• Canadian Thoracic Society: clinical practice guideline on pharmacotherapy in patients with COPD update of evidence (2019)

• Spanish GesEPOC: pharmacological treatment of stable COPD (2017)

• Ministry of Health Singapore: COPD clinical practice guidelines (2017)

• NHS Derbyshire COPD management (updated 2019)

• Ministry of Health British Columbia: COPD diagnosis and management (updated 2020)

• Queensland Ambulance Service: COPD clinical practice guidelines (2020)

COVID-19

• National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce: high-priority, evidence-based clinical COVID-19 guidelines updated with the latest research (2021)

• NICE COVID-19 rapid guideline: interstitial lung disease (2020)

• Australian guidelines for the clinical care of people with COVID-19 (2021)

• The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS): COVID-19 guidelines (2020)

• Children’s Health Queensland: clinical guidelines for chest imaging in a child with respiratory illness during COVID-19 (2020)

• The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR): guidelines for CT Chest and chest radiograph reporting in patients with suspected COVID-19 infection (2020)

Cystic fibrosis

• NICE guideline: cystic fibrosis diagnosis and management (2017)

• NICE COVID-19 rapid guideline: cystic fibrosis (2020)

• TSANZ: nutrition guideline for cystic fibrosis in Australia and New Zealand (2017)

• Children’s Health Queensland: clinical guideline empirical antimicrobial therapy for children with cystic fibrosis (2020)

• Government of Western Australia guideline: cystic fibrosis paediatric (2020)

Hypoventilation

• ATS guideline: evaluation and management of obesity hypoventilation syndrome (2019)

Interstitial lung disease

• NICE COVID-19 rapid guideline: interstitial lung disease (2020)

• ATS guideline: home oxygen therapy for adults with chronic lung disease (2020)

• ATS/JRS/ALAT guideline: diagnosis of hypersensitivity pneumonitis in adults (2020)

• ATS guideline: diagnosis and detection of sarcoidosis (2020)

• ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT guideline: diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (2018)

• Japanese guideline for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (2018)

Lung cancer & oncologic disorders

• ATS guideline: initiating pharmacologic treatment in tobacco-dependent adults (2020)

• ATS/STS/STR guideline: management of malignant pleural effusions (2018)

• ATS guideline: initiating pharmacologic treatment in tobacco-dependent adults (2020)

• NICE guideline: lung cancer diagnosis and management (2019)

• ESMO guideline: metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (2018)

• ESMO guideline: early-stage and locally advanced (non-metastatic) non-small-cell lung cancer (2017)

• Cancer Council Australia guideline: treatment of lung cancer (updated 2021)

• College of American Pathologists: molecular testing guideline for the selection of lung cancer patients for treatment with TKI (updated 2018)

• ASTRO guideline: radiation therapy for small cell lung cancer (2020)

• NCCP guideline: diagnosis, staging and treatment of patients with lung cancer (2017)

• CHEST guideline and expert panel report: screening for lung cancer (2018)

• ASCO guideline: stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer therapy (updated 2020)

• The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer: consensus statement on immunotherapy for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (2018)

• NIH National Cancer Institute: non-small cell lung cancer treatment (2020)

• NIH National Cancer Institute: small cell lung cancer treatment (2020)

• NIH National Cancer Institute: childhood pleuropulmonary blastoma treatment (2020)

• NIH National Cancer Institute: childhood tracheobronchial tumors treatment (2020)

• NIH National Cancer Institute: lung cancer prevention (2020)

• NIH National Cancer Institute: lung cancer screening (2020)

Non-invasive ventilation

• ATS guideline: long-term noninvasive ventilation in chronic stable hypercapnic COPD (2020)

• ERS/ATS guideline: noninvasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure (2017)

• American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine: new guidelines on noninvasive ventilation (article, 2017)

• Lung Foundation Australia: COPD-X guidelines: non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (2020)

• German national guideline for treating chronic respiratory failure with invasive and non-invasive ventilation(updated 2017)

• The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne: continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and non-invasive ventilation (NIV) (2018)

Obstructive sleep apnoea

• ATS guideline: weight management in the treatment of adult obstructive sleep apnoea (2018)

• NICE guideline: hypoglossal nerve stimulation for moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnoea (2017)

• NZ Starship: obstructive sleep apnoea (2017)

• American Academy of Sleep Medicine guideline: diagnostic testing for adult obstructive sleep apnea (2017)

• US Department of Veteran Affairs: the management of chronic insomnia disorder and obstructive sleep apnea (2019)

Oxygen therapy

• ATS guideline: home oxygen therapy for adults with chronic lung disease (2020)

• ATS guideline: home oxygen therapy for children (2018)

• BTS guideline: oxygen use in adults in healthcare and emergency settings (2017)

• The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne: oxygen delivery (nursing) (2017)

• BMJ guideline: oxygen therapy for acutely ill medical patients (2018)

• Government of Western Australia guideline: oxygen therapy (updated 2020)

• Lung Foundation Australia: COPD-X guideline: long term oxygen therapy (2020)

• Lung Foundation Australia: COPD-X guideline: oxygen therapy (2020)

Pleural effusion and empyema

• ATS/STS/STR guideline: management of malignant pleural effusions (2018)

• Canadian Paediatric Society: paediatric complicated pneumonia: diagnosis and management of empyema (updated 2018)

• Government of Western Australia guideline: pleural empyema (2018)

• The American Association for Thoracic Surgery consensus guidelines for the management of empyema (2017)

Pneumonia

• ATS/ IDSA guideline: diagnosis and treatment of adults with community-acquired pneumonia (2019)

• NICE guideline: COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing suspected or confirmed pneumonia in adults in the community (updated 2020)

• Infectious Diseases Society of Taiwan (IDST): recommendations and guidelines for the treatment of pneumonia in Taiwan (2017)

• NZ Starship: pneumonia (2019)

• Dutch Working Party on Antibiotic Policy (SWAB) and Dutch Association of Chest Physicians (NVALT): management of community-acquired pneumonia in adults (updated 2016)

• The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne: community-acquired pneumonia (2020)

• SA Health: community acquired pneumonia (adults) management (2017)

• NSW Health: infants and children: acute management of community acquired pneumonia (2018)

• WA Health: paediatric acute care guideline pneumonia (2017)

Pneumothorax

• SECT: clinical practice guideline on the management of patients with spontaneous pneumothorax (2017)

• Victorian Agency for Health Information: clinical guidance on pneumothorax drainage for neonates (2020)

• NHS: pneumothorax: neonatal clinical guideline (2020)

Pulmonary embolism

• BTS guideline: outpatient management of pulmonary embolism (2018)

• ESC/ ERS guideline: diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism (2019)

• Thrombosis and Haemostasis Society of Australia and New Zealand: guidelines for the diagnosis and management of venous thromboembolism (2019)

• American Society of Hematology: guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: diagnosis of venous thromboembolism (2018)

• American Society of Hematology: guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: prophylaxis for hospitalized and non-hospitalized medical patients (2018)

• American Society of Hematology: guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: prevention of venous thromboembolism in surgical hospitalized patients (2019)

• American Society of Hematology: guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: optimal management of anticoagulation therapy (2018)

• American Society of Hematology: guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (2018)

• American Society of Hematology: guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: venous thromboembolism in the context of pregnancy (2018)

• American Society of Hematology: guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: treatment of pediatric venous thromboembolism (2018)

• American Society of Hematology: guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: treatment of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism (2020)

Pulmonary hypertension

• NICE guideline evidence review: managing pulmonary hypertension and cor pulmonale (2018)

• CHEST guideline: therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension in adults (2019)

• TSOC guideline focused update on diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (2018)

• The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne guideline: Peri-operative management of patients with pulmonary hypertension or cardiomyopathy (updated 2021)

• British Society of Echocardiography guideline protocol: Echocardiographic assessment of pulmonary hypertension(2018)

Pulmonary rehabilitation

• Lung Foundation/TSANZ guideline: pulmonary rehabilitation (2017)

Respiratory failure 

• ERS/ATS guideline: noninvasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure (2017)