letter · European Respiratory Journal · 2013
Last call for the flight simulation test?
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Measuring PO 2 during flight simulation fails to predict which COPD patients develop complications during air travel http://ow.ly/nQ1Xo''Dear Colleague, Please see and advise on this patient with COPD who wishes to fly''.This is a common request from our non-respiratory colleagues and although we have guidelines to follow to assist in answering their queries, the evidence on which the guidelines are based is weak.The most recently published air travel recommendations are those from the British Thoracic Society (BTS) [1], which try to make some sense of the evidence and provide guidance based on expert consensus, but the recommendations for prescribing oxygen during a flight remain, at best, level C.Respiratory symptoms during flights are relatively common in studies of patients with COPD, with varying frequencies being reported, most likely depending on the method of recruitment.The UK Flight Outcomes Study [6] was a prospective study in which 243 patients with COPD took part (Global Initiative for Chronic
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Howard, L. (2013). Last call for the flight simulation test? European Respiratory Journal, 42(5), 1175–1177. https://doi.org/10.1183/09031936.00037813
Howard, Luke. “Last call for the flight simulation test?” European Respiratory Journal, vol. 42, no. 5, 2013, pp. 1175–77, https://doi.org/10.1183/09031936.00037813.
Howard, Luke. 2013. “Last call for the flight simulation test?” European Respiratory Journal 42 (5): 1175–77. https://doi.org/10.1183/09031936.00037813.
Howard, L. (2013) ‘Last call for the flight simulation test?’, European Respiratory Journal, 42(5), pp. 1175–1177. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1183/09031936.00037813.
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