Disaster Related Resources
The ATS has developed a number of resources to help clinicians and their patients deal with respiratory challenges that result from natural disasters, including the following:
ATS Recommendations
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ATS Recommendations: 10 Tips for Staying Healthy During Wild Fires
- ATS Clinical Recommendations: 10 Steps for Hospitals Facing Intravenous Fluid Shortages
Patient Info Series pieces
- ARDS: What is Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome?
- Cough
- Disposable Respirators
- Emergency: How to Prepare for an Emergency or Disaster When You Have Lung Disease or a Sleep Disorder
- Influenza—“The Flu”
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Using Your Metered Dose Inhaler (MDI)
- Mold-Specific Concerns Associated with Water Damage for Those with Allergies, Asthma, and Other Lung Diseases
- Outdoor Air Pollution and Your Health
- Oxygen Therapy
- Pneumonia, What Is It?
- Sudden Breathlessness Crisis
Official Documents
- An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report: Chemical Inhalational Disasters
- An Official American Thoracic Society/European Society of Intensive Care Medicine/Society of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Practice Guideline: Mechanical Ventilation in Adult Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Management of Adults With Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society
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