Predicting the response to air travel in passengers with non-obstructive lung disease: Are the current guidelines appropriate?

Respirology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 567-573

  Kelly, Paul T ^a   Swanney, Maureen P ^a   Seccombe, Leigh M ^b   Frampton, Chris ^c   Peters, Matthew J ^b   Beckert, Lutz E ^a  

^a CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b ANZAC Research Institute   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Air travel; Desaturation; Hypobaric hypoxia; Hypoxic challenge test; Restrictive lung disease

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; AVIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIA; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SPIROMETRY; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY;

ADULT; AGED; AIR PRESSURE; AIRCRAFT; ANOXIA; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIMETRY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; TRAVEL;

EID: 65649118885     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2009.01520.x     Document Type: Article

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