Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand oxygen guidelines for acute oxygen use in adults: 'Swimming between the flags'

Richard Beasley; Jimmy Chien; James Douglas; Leonie Eastlake; Claude Farah; Gregory King; Rosemary Moore; Janine Pilcher; Michael Richards; Sheree Smith; Haydn Walters

doi:10.1111/resp.12620

Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand oxygen guidelines for acute oxygen use in adults: 'Swimming between the flags'

Respirology. 2015 Nov;20(8):1182-91. doi: 10.1111/resp.12620.

Authors

Richard Beasley^{1

2}, Jimmy Chien³, James Douglas⁴, Leonie Eastlake¹, Claude Farah^{5

6

7

8}, Gregory King^{6

7

9}, Rosemary Moore¹⁰, Janine Pilcher^{1

2

11}, Michael Richards¹, Sheree Smith¹², Haydn Walters¹³

Affiliations

¹ Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand.
² Wellington Regional Hospital, Capital and Coast District Health Board, Wellington, New Zealand.
³ Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Ludwig Engel Centre for Respiratory Research, Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney at Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁴ Thoracic Program, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
⁵ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Concord Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁶ Physiology and Imaging Group, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁷ Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁸ Australian School of Advanced Medicine, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
¹⁰ Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Austin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
¹¹ School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
¹² School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
¹³ CRE for Chronic Respiratory Disease, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Abstract

The purpose of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand guidelines is to provide simple, practical evidence-based recommendations for the acute use of oxygen in adults in clinical practice. The intended users are all health professionals responsible for the administration and/or monitoring of oxygen therapy in the management of acute medical patients in the community and hospital settings (excluding perioperative and intensive care patients), those responsible for the training of such health professionals, and both public and private health care organizations that deliver oxygen therapy.

Keywords: adult; guideline; hyperoxia; hypoxia; oxygen; oxygen inhalation therapy.

Publication types

Practice Guideline

MeSH terms

Adult
Australia
Humans
New Zealand
Oxygen / administration & dosage*
Oxygen / blood
Oxygen Inhalation Therapy / standards*
Societies, Medical*

Substances

Oxygen