Clinical Practice Guidelines

AARC Clinical Practice Guideline: Patient-Ventilator Assessment (2024) AARC Clinical Practice Guideline: Spontaneous Breathing Trials for Liberation From Adult Mechanical Ventilation (2024) AARC Clinical Practice Guidelines: Capillary Blood Gas Sampling for Neonatal and Pediatric Patients (2022) AARC Clinical Practice Guidelines: Artificial Airway Suctioning (2022) AARC Clinical Practice Guideline: Management of Adult Patients With Oxygen in the Acute Care Setting (2022) AARC Clinical Practice Guideline: Management of Pediatric Patients with Oxygen in the Acute Care Setting (2021) AARC Clinical Practice Guideline: Management of Adult Patients with Tracheostomy in the Acute Care Setting (2021) AARC Clinical Practice Guideline: Management of Pediatric Patients with Tracheostomy in the Acute Care Setting (2021) AARC Clinical Practice Guideline: Effectiveness of Pharmacologic Airway Clearance Therapies in Hospitalized Patients (2015) AARC Clinical Practice Guideline: Effectiveness of Nonpharmacologic Airway Clearance Therapies in Hospitalized Patients (2013) Evidence-based clinical practice guideline: Inhaled nitric oxide for neonates with acute hypoxic respiratory failure (2010) Care of the ventilator circuit and its relation to ventilator associated pneumonia (2003) Weaning and discontinuing ventilatory support (2002)

Aerosol delivery device selection for spontaneously breathing patients (2012) Application of continuous positive airway pressure to neonates via nasal prongs, or nasopharyngeal tube, or nasal mask (2004) Blood gas analysis and hemoximetry (2013) Bronchoscopy assisting (2007) Capillary blood gas sampling for neonatal and pediatric patients (2001) Capnography/capnometry during mechanical ventilation (2011) Effect of race and ethnicity on pulmonary function testing interpretation (2023) Endotracheal suctioning of mechanically ventilated patients with artificial airways (2010) Humidification during invasive and non invasive mechanical ventilation (2012) In-hospital transport of the mechanically ventilated patient (2002) Incentive spirometry (2011) Infant/toddler pulmonary function tests (2008) Intermittent positive pressure breathing (2003) Long-term invasive mechanical ventilation in the home (2007) Metabolic measurement using indirect calorimetry during mechanical ventilation (2004) Nasotracheal suctioning (2004) Oxygen therapy for adults in the acute care facility (2002) Oxygen therapy in the home or alternate site health care facility (2007) Polysomnography (1995) Providing patient and caregiver training (2010) Removal of the endotracheal tube (2007) Surfactant replacement therapy (2013) Transcutaneous blood gas monitoring for neonatal and pediatric patients (2012)

Assessing response to bronchodilator therapy at point of care (1995) Bland aerosol administration (2003) Body plethysmography (2001) Defibrillation during resuscitation (1995) Directed cough (1993) Discharge planning for the respiratory care patient (1995) Exercise testing for evaluation of hypoxemia and/or desaturation (2001) Management of airway emergencies (1995) Methacholine challenge testing (2001) Neonatal time-triggered, pressure-limited, time-cycle mechanical ventilation (1994) Patient-ventilator system checks (1992) Postural drainage therapy (1991) Pulmonary rehabilitation (2002) Pulse oximetry (1992) Resuscitation and defibrillation in the health care setting (2004) Sampling for arterial blood gas analysis (1992) Selection of a device for delivery of aerosol to the lung parenchyma (1996) Selection of an aerosol device for neonatal and pediatric patients (1995) Selection of an oxygen delivery device for neonatal and pediatric patients (2002) Selection of device, administration of bronchodilator, and evaluation of response to therapy in mechanically ventilated patients (1999) Single-breath carbon monoxide diffusing capacity (1999) Spirometry (1996) Static lung volumes (2001) Suctioning of the patient in the home (1999) Training the health care professional for the role of patient and caregiver education (1996) Use of positive airway pressure adjuncts to bronchial hygiene therapy (1993)

ACCP Device Selection and Outcomes of Aerosol Therapy: Evidence-Based Guidelines (2005)

ASA Practice Guidelines for the Management of the Difficult Airway (2013)

ATS/ESICM/SCCM Clinical Practice Guideline: Mechanical Ventilation in Adult Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

NAEPP EPR-3 2007 Asthma Guidelines

AAP Clinical Practice Guideline: The Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Bronchiolitis (2014)

ATS CPG: Classification, Evaluation, and Management of Childhood Interstitial Lung Disease (chILD) in Infancy (2013)

CFF: Cystic Fibrosis Pulmonary Guidelines: Airway Clearance Therapies (2009)

AHA ECC 2015 Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care

Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: A consensus statement by the American College of Critical Care Medicine (2008)

ATS: An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline: Pediatric Chronic Home Invasive Ventilation (2016)

ATS Guideline: The Diagnosis of Intensive Care Unit-acquired Weakness in Adults (2014)

AHRQ Comparative Effectiveness Report Number 68: Noninvasive Positive-Pressure Ventilation (NPPV) for Acute Respiratory Failure (2012)

AASM Clinical Guideline for the Evaluation, Management, and Long-Term Care of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults (2009)

NCP Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, 4th edition (2018)

ATS Guideline: Diagnosis, Risk Stratification, and Management of Pulmonary Hypertension of Sickle Cell Disease (2014) AHA/ATS Guideline: Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension ACCP Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Medical Therapy for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (2007)

ATS/ERS Standardization of Lung Function Testing: General Considerations for Lung Function Testing (2005) ATS/ERS Standardization of Lung Function Testing: Standardization of the Measurement of Lung Volumes (2005) ERS/ATS Standards for Single-Breath Carbon Monoxide Uptake in the Lung (2017) ATS/ERS Standardization of Lung Function Testing: Standardization of Spirometry (2005) ATS/ACCP Statement on Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (2003) ATS Statement: Guidelines for the Six-Minute Walk Test (2002) ATS Guidelines for Methacholine and Exercise Challenge Testing (2000)

American College of Chest Physicians/American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines (2007)

Diagnosis and treatment of respiratory illness in children and adults (2013)

Smoking Cessation Guidelines from the Surgeon General

SCCM Guidelines for the Inter- and Intrahospital Transport of Critically Ill Patients (2004)

Centers for Disease Control Device-Associated module: Ventilator Associated Event Protocol (2013) Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement: Prevention of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (2011)

ATS CPG: Diagnostic Evaluation of Infants with Recurrent or Persistent Wheezing