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-2020-22 | ERS Guideline on ICS/formoterol on demand | Alberto Papi, Florence Schleich, Diogenes Ferreira |
| TF-2020-18 | ERS Technical Standard for a comprehensive high quality lung cancer CT screening programme | David Baldwin, Jan Van Meerbeeck |
| TF-2020-17 | ERS Statement on defining respiratory exacerbations for bronchiectasis in children and adolescents | Anne Chang, Ahmad Kantar |
| TF-2020-15 | ERS Statement on frailty in adults with chronic lung disease | Matthew Maddocks, Christian Osadnik |
| 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-2020-06 | ERS Statement on dyspnoea: a multidimensional and multidisciplinary approach | Pierantonio Laveneziana, Louis Laviolette |
| TF-2020-05 | ERS Statement on airway clearance techniques in adults with bronchiectasis | Arietta Spinou, Beatriz Herrero-Cortina |
| TF-2020-03 | ERS/EULAR Clinical practice guideline on connective tissue diseases with interstitial lung (ILD) involvement | Katerina Antoniou, Bruno Crestani, Anna-Maria Hoffmann-Vold, Oliver Distler |
| 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 dyspnoea in acutely ill mechanically ventilated patients | Alexandre Demoule, Leo Heunks |
| TF-2019-01 | Statement on paediatric 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-2018-08 | 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-2018-02 | Guidelines on giagnosis 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-2017-04 | ERS Statement for the Interpretation of Nitric Oxide Uptake in the Lung | Anh-Tuan Dinh-Xuan, Gerald Zavorsky |
| TF-2017-03 | Guidelines on management of severe community acquired pneumonia | Antoni Torres, Ignacio Martin-Loeches |
