ERS Task Forces work to produce official guidelines, statements and technical standards on specific topics in respiratory medicine, in order to guide other respiratory professionals in their clinical practice.
| Task Force Number | Task Force Name | Task Force Chairs |
|---|---|---|
| TF-2020-14 | ERS Guidelines for Management of COVID-19 | Nicolas Roche, James Chalmers |
| TF-2020-13 | ERS/ESC Guidelines on Pulmonary Hypertension | Marion Delcroix, Stephan Rosenkranz |
| TF-2020-11 | ERS/ESTS Statement on management of pleural infection | Isabelle Schmitt-Opitz, Najib Rahman, Eihab Bedawi |
| TF-2020-10 | ERS Clinical Practice Guideline on Various Aspects of Quality in Lung Cancer Care. | Torsten Blum, Thierry Berghmans, Adrian Constantini |
| TF-2020-07 | ERS/ESTS Clinical Practice Guideline Task Force on Fitness for Tumour-specific Treatments of Lung Cancer | Alessandro Brunelli, Huber Rodolfo Maria, Georgia Hardavella |
| TF-2020-05 | ERS Statement on airway clearance techniques in adults with bronchiectasis | Arietta Spinou, Beatriz Herrero-Cortina |
| TF-2020-02 | Technical standard on nasal nitric oxide measurement in children for the diagnosis of primary ciliary dyskinesis | Jane Lucas, Nicole Beydon |
| TF-2020-01 | Developing Global Lung Function Initiative (GLI) reference equations for multiple breath washout | Alexandre Horsley, Kathryn Ramsey |
| TF-2019-21 | Updated Technical Standards for the Measurement of Lung Volumes | Bhakta Nirav, Aisling McGowan |
| TF-2019-18 | Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) “ An Update of diagnosis and treatment recommendations: Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Clinical Practice Guidelines | Ganesh Raghu, Carey Thomson Martine Remy-Jardin, Luca Richeldi |
| TF-2019-16 | Technical Standards on Scoring of respiratory events using Type III devices for the diagnosis of Sleep Disordered Breathing in Adults and Children | Renata Riha, Winfried Randerath |
| TF-2019-14 | ERS/ESTS/ESTRO/ESR/ESTI Statement on Management of Incidental Findings from Low-Dose CT screening for Lung Cancer (MILCa) | David Baldwin, Gilbert Massard |
| TF-2019-12 | Statement on Management of Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | Alexander Mathioudakis, Jens-Ulrich Jensen |
| TF-2019-09 | Guidelines on Transbronchial (cryo)biopsy and surgical lung biopsy in interstitial lung diseases | Venerino Poletti, Jouke Annema |
| TF-2019-05 | Guidelines on Management of Spontaneous Pneumothorax | Najib Rahman, Guiseppe Cardillo |
| TF-2019-03 | Statement on Dyspnea in acutelly ill mechanically ventilated patients | Alexandre Demoule, Leo Heunks |
| TF-2019-01 | Statement on Pediatric long-term NIV | Brigitte Fauroux, Stijn Verhulst |
| TF-2018-15 | Statement on treatment of Lung Cancer Stage 1A | Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Nir Peled |
| TF-2018-14 | Statement on Combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE) | Vincent Cottin |
| TF-2018-11 | Updated Technical Standards for Interpretive Strategies for Basic Lung Function Tests | Sanja Stanojevic, David Kaminsky |
| TF-2018-15 | Statement on Lung Cancer Stage 1A | Nir Peled, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor |
| TF-2018-08 | Statement on Diagnosis and investigation of central sleep apnoea in children aged 1 month to 18 years | Hui-Leng Tan |
| TF-2018-07 | Techincal Standards on Developing Lung Function Initiative (GLI) reference equations for exhaled and nasal nitric oxide | Anh-Tuan Dinh-Xuan, Graham Hall |
| TF-2018-04 | Statement on Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension | Marion Delcroix, Gerald Simonneau, Mayer Eckhard |
| TF-2018-02 | Guidelines on Diagnosis of Asthma in adults | Louis Renaud, Usmani Omar |
| TF-2018-01 | Guidelines on Non-CPAP Therapies for Obstructive Sleep Apnoea | Winfried Randerath, Johan Verbraecken |
| TF-2017-06 | Guidelines on Diagnosis of asthma in children aged 5 to 16 years | Erol Gaillard, Alexander Moller |
| TF-2017-03 | Guidelines on Management of severe Community acquired pneumonia | Antoni Torres, Ignacio Martin-Loeches |
| TF-2016-10 | Guidelines on Sarcoidosis treatment | Bob Baughman, Dominique Valeyre |
| TF-2015-16 | Statement on Understanding of and Adherence to International Guidelines in the Management of Stable Asthma by Non-Specialists. Indications for Specialist Referral | Mathioudakis Alexandros, Olympia Tsilochristou, Christer Janson, Ioana Agache |
| TF-2015-06 | Statement on Severe asthma exacerbations, facts, priorities and key research questions | Mina Gaga |